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To interrupt for a
moment, this is my homage

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to Jayne Mansfield
and my confusion

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over what the title was.

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"Blonde Bombshell."

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"Love is boring and passé,
all that old baggage,

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all the bloody
bric-a-brac of it.

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The bad, the gothic,
the retrograde,

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obscurantist hum and drum of
it needs to be swept away.

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So, night after night, we sit
in the dark of the Roxy Theater

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beside Grandma with
her shanks tied up

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in the tourniquets
of rolled stockings,

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and open ourselves
like earth to rain,

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to the blue fire of
the movie screen, where

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love surrenders suddenly to
gangsters and to their cuties.

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There in the narrow
moat-filled finger of light

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is a blonde so
blonde, so blinding,

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she is a blizzard, a huge spook,
and lights up like the sun

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the audience in its galoshes.

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She bulges like a deuce coupe.

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When we see her, we
say good-bye to Kansas.

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She is everything
spare, cool and clean.

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She is that gas station
on a dark night.

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And the cold dependable
light of rage

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is coming in on
schedule, like a bus."