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MARILYN DECIDES TO GO MEET ELVIS she was always good at getting whoever was near her skin, so a swim under the earth's skin for thirty-two years takes her not too far from Memphis. Some months she just stretched out, listened to tree roots grow, let underground rivers lull her, worms circle her fingers like peruvian tree rings. No early morning calls, no dead lines, no dawn shoots at the studio. But after thirty-two years she wouldn't mind a little rocka- billy, maybe hip-hop. She might not have the hips and pelvis she used to, but neither must that other glitz and glitter, gut bucket shaker heartbreaker now. She could be Norma Jean again, they'd get some new digs in Grenada or Harrisburg, let the Mississippi rock and roll them to the sea. |
