Matthew Platakos



Marilyn Pursued by Death

after Rosalyn Drexler, 1963 LOS ANGELES TIMES AUGUST 6, 1962 MARILYN MONROE DIES; PILLS BLAMED silver (screen) poisoning // skin bleached by pop toxins Warhol injected direct into the veins the only blonde in the world 100% chemical on cryogenic …

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lifesong (anti-elegy for a friend)

She plays Chopin by the seashore like someone in love // someone rubbed the wrong way— days under drought & flood evenings under ash & microbial mists miasma invades & infects & murders the will to play— January inertia // …

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