#ThrowBackThursday: Bettie Page

Bettie Page

In Florida

            It’s so hot

                        Problems should

                                    Just melt away.

In Florida

            I wish I’d

                        Melt until

                                    I look like

                                                Bettie Page.

Melt away all the pounds

Melt away all the scars

Melt away all the pain, and

Let is all drip to the ground.

Drip

            Drip

                        Dripping

Like wax from a candle

Like rain from the sky

Like the tears from my eyes

I wonder if when I cry, I cry like Bettie Page . . . 

Poem and photo, circa 2003.