Campaign Outsider Poem o’ the Day (pat. pending)

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 photo

of Venus de Milo.
But who, intact,

would Venus be?
Some standard-issue

ingénue. Give me
a woman who’s lived

a little, who’s wrapped
her arms around the ages

and come up lacking: that’s
the stone that can move me.

Hey – I just liked it.

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3 Responses to Campaign Outsider Poem o’ the Day (pat. pending)

  1. arafat kazi's avatar arafat kazi says:

    In the room the women come and go
    Talking of an ad with Venus de Milo.

  2. arafat kazi's avatar arafat kazi says:

    PS it is a very good poem. But my comment was too clever to acknowledge that!!!

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