Jayne Mansfield 9/11

Her skin was celluloid golden

Lips an almost disembodied red

Hair a blinding silver

Big white bosoms

Beautiful throat

Nobody notices that

She helps us forget

The two jumbo jets

Busting out of her blouse

Taking down buildings

The Twin Phalluses 

Of capitalism

Or was Manhattan her body

And Jayne supine

Staring at the sky we thought ours

And the planes phallic

Frustrated last hard ons

Of oppressive patriarchy

Jayne and Marilyn

We prefer them dead

Auto decapitated

Slumbering into suicide

Un-aging

Two dimensional

Silent

Long as Jayne kept her head

And after

We sucked her tits

And called them America

We sucked the biggest tits in the world

For two generations

Now they won't even show us the nipple

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 was it

We've moved on

Or slid backwards

Or fell down

The rabbit hole of patriotism

The evil beard we blamed

Is finally dead

Now we're free to hate each other

Again

Don Arrup

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