Thursday, April 30, 2015

New poem: POEM INSPIRED BY AMBER TAMBLYN'S QUENTIN DEAN.

[Poem inspired by an Amber Tamblyn poem I liked in the anthology WIDE AWAKE.]

I remember Quentin Dean
from IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
where she placed herself
in a front window
of a small-town house
in hopes that someone 
happening to pass by
could stop the car
and come inside
for mutual breaking 
of nightly monotony
in stifling-in-many-ways
Southern United States
>
from her brief biography
on the Internet Movie Database,
Quentin Dean wanted more from life
than to be a mere object of desire
in Hollywood studio films and TV
in the days before
the counterculture briefly made
old-fashioned gloss
(that even permeated movies
with a Social Conscience)
almost obsolete
>
so she left Show Business
and lived until 2003
and likely didn't give a damn
about people who went on the Internet
to find out Where Is She Now?
>
Quentin Dean knew
who she was,
where she was
and, I'm guessing, was happy
to not have to care anymore
about all that nonsense
regarding photo shoots, publicity
and the Male Gaze
that can be a curse
more often than not

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