The Death of Mae West (revised, partial)

[pantryslut]

mae died drinking
or she should have died drinking
or at least in a bar fight, stabbed in the eye
by a jealous lover or a
vengeful wife

or she should have died fucking
not a sex crime corpse
but laughing
as her thighs clenched
and her heart burst

she should have died in the arms
of 87 buff young men
one for each year that she lived

Comments

[charliegrrrl.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Myra Breckenridge? I hesitate to recommend it, for so very many reasons. It's possibly the worst tranny movie ever made, and it ends by proving that being smushed by a car is the "cure" for transgenderism... *BUT* Mae West is to die for in it. She steals the movie. She practically steals the movies next door. You get to see Mae West cruise Tom Selleck. It's great!

[manomano.livejournal.com]

I like it much better.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i really liked the end line of "at least she died in bed".

also, as it is here, it makes me want another stanza. you say partial, so i have hopes there is more. :)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Yes, there will be more. I have a tendency to close my poems off too soon, and I'm trying to let this one mellow and accrete.