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All American Girl

Ralph Monday

What is she, this scrubbed clean,
wholesome thing that like a fey
haunts an American landscape
bittered by extinct values?

Anachronism, as Bell’s phone,
Ford’s Model T, worn out sweetness
like mothball scent in a frayed polka dot
dress from the 1950s, revived for a moment
to grace a Halloween carnival.

Is she only a dream, like Emily Webb, a blonde,
braided Becky Thatcher gracing Tom with
love as a purple pansy?

Perhaps a 1950s drive in movie princess
splashed across the screen who never kisses
on the first date, wears knee length skirts,
modest angora sweaters, attends Catholic school,
sports horn rimmed, dark glasses, destined
for marriage, church, cut and paste suburbs,
American pie, wife and motherhood fulfillment?

Certainly not Pink, Madonna, Marilyn,
more like June Cleaver or Lucy. The
All American Girl who used to live next
door, small town American sweethearts,
is as defunct as a United States that has
lost its moral and ethical center.

Now, only found in ghost tracings on
the web, old 1940s and 50s magazines,
or in black and white movies spinning
down that no one watches.

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