MARILYN MONROE (BASED ON 1953 PLAYBOY CENTREFOLD)

A picture of vivacity    
And inviting tactility,    
She who had lately graced the screen    
Was now in glory to be seen.  
She looked exultantly naked,    
Against the drape of velvet red,  
With eye catchingly blonded curls,    
And neck worth gracing with some pearls.    
Stretched back arm, closed eyes, seeming laugh,    
As if had a reviving bath.    
Her breasts, freed of the brassiere,    
Invite admiring view, not stare.    
Her stomach’s enviably flat,    
Her frame bears no excessive fat.    
Her legs curl up, together close    
To add modesty to her pose.  

No scar or tattoos there to mar    
The untanned body of that star;    
Pristine, goddess-like nakedness,    
Other women might wish possess.  
She was 27 years old    
When Playboy mag’s first centrefold,    
With one marriage in her past life,    
Two future ventures as the wife    
Of Di Maggio, then Miller.  
Ten years on, sleep drugs would kill her.  
The ‘Great American Body’    
Personified a gaiety;
That gaiety hid private woes,    
And some ascribe her death to foes    
Of her closeness with Kennedys    
(Cheating with her on their ladies).