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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (2067)	12/3/2004 12:03:41 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2095

Great, luv that. Here's another one I really like by Kim Addonizio, sharp and ironic and true: DEAD GIRLS show up often in the movies, facedown in the weeds beside the highway. Kids find them by the river, or in the woods, under leaves, one pink-nailed hand thrust up. Detectives stand over them in studio apartments or lift their photos off pianos in the houses they almost grew up in. A dead girl can kick a movie into gear better than a saloon brawl, better than a factory explosion, just by lying there. Anyone can play her, any child off the street can be hog-tied and dumped from a van or strangled blue in a kitchen, a bathroom, an alley, a school. That’s the beauty of a dead girl. Even a plain one who feels worthless as a clod of dirt, broken by the sorrow of gazing all day at a fashion magazine, can be made whole, redeemed by what she finally can’t help being, the center of attention, the special, desirable, dead, dead girl.