"The thing I don't like about being called a 'sex symbol' is that it makes you into a thing. But if I have to be a symbol, I'd rather be a symbol for sex than for some other thing."
"I had the foreground -- and the background."
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
With Morgan Freeman and John Masefield, Ms. Monroe is my birthday mate!
Posted by: Diann Blakely | December 01, 2011 at 11:41 AM