Goodbye Again to Marilyn

Today is the anniversary of Marilyn's death who was so pretty with that wavy dark hair before the studios made it into yellow cotton candy. She was darling as a child, darling as a young wife, inexpressibly lovely in her years as a star, especially in those unguarded moments like this one when some  photographer captured her in repose, maybe just relieved about being up and functioning, the uppers having finally kicked in to bring her out of the deep sleep brought on by the downers that might as well have been roofies for how thoroughly they smothered her.I looked on YouTube just now on the off-chance I could see more of her, doubting I'd find anything, but what miraculous times we live in for here she is again. Not dead Marilyn with the blood pooling in her face when, for hours she lay where she died, but this luminous girl about the same age as Angelina Jolie, our current icon of female beauty.Here's to you Marilyn; and here's to you too Sarah McLachlan, for writing that haunting 'pulled from the wreckage' line in the song that accompanies it.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1qIQpwFNA8&feature=related]