Boldly sits pretty Marilyn Monroe <br />but there is something more that this photo tells <br />than a pair of pants clinging in blue, <br />than only female attraction under a thin skin. <br />Stripped and very bare <br />the material and the silence scream <br />like her languishing life story, <br />with a painful lonely coldness. <br />More than her nakedness that comes from beneath <br />a person is totally astonished <br />and bowled over by her pain <br />and there is a kind of dark monstrosity <br />that hides beyond the mask of the actress, <br />of a heart that cannot cry itself out.<br /><br />Gert Strydom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/marilyn-monroe-s-photo-in-blue-in-answer-to-t-t-cloete/
