“Marilyn, My Marilyn”

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“Marilyn Monroe” (1954) by Willem de Kooning

“Marilyn, My Marilyn”

There she lives inside this movie

A misfit face up on the screen

And her soft voice that I’m still hearing

Alive and well, in mise-en-scène

She’s standing tall before de Kooning

Impossible to be erased

With an arc so wild and swerving

And lipstick in its perfect place

But to the flame that licks eternal,

Or monuments that mock the wind,

From the lines of tossed script pages

Come whispered warnings ‘neath the din

Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in “The Misfits” (1961), the last completed film for both.

Published by Stephen Futterer

Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.

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