Life

She's reading Life magazine
in her underwear
leaning  against the trailer.
She looks like Sophia Loren
on the front cover
standing next to an Andy Warhol
Coca Cola painting
on the back.
It's a trailer park in Mississippi
and it's so hot
that she could be anyone
she fucking wants.
September 16, 1966,
I remember that cover well.
I was a teenage boy
and she was beautiful in black lingerie.
Thank God for Life,
the magazine that is.
It's all there was before we had TV.
Times change,
but beauty is the one constant
that remains.

Robert
2016