marilyn monroe reads how hikers find a man buried 5000 years
LYN LIFSHIN
wonders if maybe
she¹d do better
if she could step
aside that long,
go to sleep as he
did on a hill and
be flash frozen,
not even a gun
or noose, just
lie down in deer
skin and woven
grass with some
berries maybe
a sip of sloe gin,
feel stars lick
her lashes a
drop in the night
temperature she¹d
never feel and
then years under
ice maybe floating
or andwiched under
ice or a frozen
river to be dis-
covered and prized
as treasure by
fingers that would
fight over her,
long to own her
go to court to
possess her, not in spite of but
because she was
so old
