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Like this from Sharon Olds
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The Death of Marilyn Monroe

The ambulance men touched her cold
body, lifted it, heavy as iron,
onto the stretcher, tried to close the
mouth, closed the eyes, tied the
arms to the sides, moved a caught
strand of hair, as if it mattered,
saw the shape of her breasts, flattened by
gravity, under the sheet
carried her, as if it were she,
down the steps.

These men were never the same. They went out
afterwards, as they always did,
for a drink or two, but they could not meet
each other's eyes.

Their lives took
a turn-one had nightmares, strange
pains, impotence, depression. One did not
like his work, his wife looked
different, his kids. Even death
seemed different to him-a place where she
would be waiting,

and one found himself standing at night
in the doorway to a room of sleep, listening to a
woman breathing, just an ordinary
woman
breathing.

by Sharon Olds
 
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Sex Without Love

How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked
inside each other's bodies, faces
red as steak, wine, wet as the
children at birth whose mothers are going to
give them away. How do they come to the
come to the come to the God come to the
still waters, and not love
the one who came there with them, light
rising slowly as steam off their joined
skin? These are the true religious,
the purists, the pros, the ones who will not
accept a false Messiah, love the
priest instead of the God. They do not
mistake the lover for their own pleasure,
they are like great runners: they know they are alone
with the road surface, the cold, the wind,
the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-
vascular health- just factors, like the partner
in the bed, and not the truth, which is the
single body alone in the universe
against its own best time.

by Sharon Olds
 
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Icy said:
Thank you. I’m still trying to find my way around the forums.
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Pleasure, its hard as things can drop off the first page. Though this area (Films etc) is a little less traveled.
 
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Lupine said:
Pleasure, its hard as things can drop off the first page. Though this area (Films etc) is a little less traveled.
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I'd like to see more postings on classic Hollywood studio films, a big area of interest to me, if others are so interested.
 
Pistil said:
Okay. Thanks. Think this thread then is a needless duplication? I'd like it to be specifically for poems shared from others, not one's own work (for which which you've created another thread, successfully).
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No I think its worth its own as like you say it's about other peoples work. So I think that's nice..
 
o western wind
when you you blow
so the small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms
and I in my bed again

15th cent anon
 
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