Via (God forgive me) Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac:
Truth in Advertising
by Andrea Cohen
If we’d moved her,
she’d still have ’em,the ad for Acme
Moving says, with a photoof Venus de Milo.
But who, intact,would Venus be?
Some standard-issueingénue. Give me
a woman who’s liveda little, who’s wrapped
her arms around the agesand come up lacking: that’s
the stone that can move me.
Hey – I just liked it.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of an ad with Venus de Milo.
PS it is a very good poem. But my comment was too clever to acknowledge that!!!
Hey, Mr. Smartypants – d’you get that job?