Truth in Advertising
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.
Andrea Cohen
Posted over on the Writer's Almanac
"Truth in Advertising" by Andrea Cohen, from Kentucky Derby.
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