Names

By Robert Creeley

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Marilyn's was Norma Jean,

Things are not always what they seem,

Skin she lived back of like some screen

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kept her wonder in common view,

said what she did, you could too,

loved by many, touched by few,

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She married heroes of all kinds

but no-one seemed to know her mind,

none the secret key could find,

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Scared kid, Norma Jean?

Are things really what they seem?

What is it that beauty means?