Truth in Advertising

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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.