Lit


“Lit” 

discards 
find another way
to light up a life

mothers displaced
in Crazyland 
shoot smiles

into the hearts
of their best 
and worst dreams

tinder burns easily 
uneasy histories 
caress life 

a long way 
down the track 
bruised memories

raise bars

rose glasses
remain 
lit

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)



Marilyn Monroe / Young & Beautiful
https://youtu.be/LH41xAcPK0M

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I Am Anaya

Date: 6/15/2022 7:37:00 PM

Naive ambition...Blond bombshell... ruined, used as a shallow sex goddess...Hollywood ignored her humanity. One of the most stunning of the long litany of Hollywood's female leads.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 6/15/2022 8:19:00 PM

I think she was murdered. She wasn't that dumb a blonde. Yes, many ignored her intelligence and humanity. She was a shining light that found the dark too soon, on all sides of her. The Kennedy's (not so squeaky clean and cursed), the Mafia, Hollywood...the system. The way women were used, disrespected and devalued during that era. It is interesting to view the relationship between her mother and Marilyn, herself, as daughter and the inherited depression. Her mother did not commit suicide, there had been previous attempts by Marilyn - yet I do not believe she committed suicide. I do believe previous attempts were used as a cover to her murder. Post mortem suggests drugs were administered to Marilyn in a way that she would not have been able to administer them to herself.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 6/15/2022 7:47:00 PM

The usual signs of self-administered suicide were not present (physically) sure a bottle of pills and booze near her (placed as props), along with a myriad of other anomalies related to her physicality via medical forensics (eg, all her internal organs from post mortem missing). More than likely Robert Kennedy with assistance from Lawford. Possibly mafia involvement. It's all connected.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 6/10/2022 1:34:00 AM

https://youtu.be/oTs4tfk0v-c

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 6/8/2022 4:01:00 AM

https://youtu.be/_IjDgOaZY28

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 6/8/2022 3:25:00 AM

https://backlots.net/2013/08/05/the-poetry-of-marilyn-monroe/

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 6/8/2022 3:31:00 AM

https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2021/05/marilyn-monroe-poet.html

Lady Labyrinth