Marilyn on a Thursday night, and then...

"It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

I see my phone sitting lonesome on the nightstand. It doesn't deserve my touch.

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
— Marilyn Monroe

Deep down, all below it all, there is still
warmth.

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
— Marilyn Monroe

And it played me
a bunch of lost music, that was always there,
I'd just forgotten about it.

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
— Marilyn Monroe

And sometimes at night
on nights like these I look
outside.

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

A chill runs down my sides. It runs
and runs
as if from me,
tiny hairs rise and fall-
electrified.

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

Can you ever really leave
without leaving
your scent
on the pillow?

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
— Marilyn Monroe

I cry.

""I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.""
— Marilyn Monroe