made him blue yesterday
gently pushed his buttons turned
down his dials
quieted his mechanisms
wetted his flameAries don like being wetted against
their will
he had to concedeif he were honest hed been taken off his game
this might be the stuff one takes
into confession
not that theyve done something
wrong had sinnedNo just needed to get it off their chest share it
over the past couple of days he
watched a documentary and heard tapes of Marilyn Monroes voice
he and she went back a long time
first Playboy he ever got his hands on as a boy was the December first issue 1953 Marilyn
graced the centerfold
he knew he liked girlshe really liked Marilyn
then that was fortified a black an white televised Sunday Matinee a broadcast of Some Like it Hot light effervescence Marilyn exuded it he remembered looking around to room at his parents
brothers sisters friends who had stopped specifically to watch the movie a classic they said theyd seen it when it was
first released in theaters in ’54
he wondered if they saw what he was seeing
furtivelybriefly he spied them while
Marilyn was on screen they didnt seem to
he reallyreally liked her
in his early twenties he had a
dream he made love to her
to this day he can close his eyes and see the dream fresh as cream rouged like a pinched cheek red
as a handprint after a crack on the ass
it was a story beginning to end they met in a soda shop palegreen appliances harshwhite tiles shiny
metal darkred upholstered swivelstools bolted
to the floor
they shared a chocolate malted sipped it through red and white striped straws the whipped cream was cold giggling shed take dollops of it with her
finger shared with him a brilliant
red cherry was on top
they
walked in the dark on a city street to her apartment went up three flights of silent carpeted steps slowly undressed each
other laid on her freshlaundered bed
they were eagerrolled tussled went back
and forth laughed breathed heavy then she was on top of him she leaned down kissed him her hair across his face
he
whispered Marilyn,
you’re dead.
she smiled beautifullyplayfully
Does it matter?
it
did not
sometime during the night exhausted they collapsed into sleep
he woke beside
her in the morning didnt disturb
her he watched her sleep admired her face her body
on a
tape Marilyn asked
Happiness, does anyone know that?
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