Hearing Marie Antoinette’s brother went on line to say his sister was
devastated by the.
revelation of her relationship with the court’s crown jewel ,
the paparazzi like sharks salivating at
their mouths, their own cameras ipso facto......
II
“Devastated?” I can’t believe it. No, not you brother. You
of all the encumbrances and wreckage, your sister stretched
out, wrecking reputations here, there, and everywhere. Doesn’t it beg
the question.?
Porque? Why? Living is not to
grow old, but to grow up
Devastated? Bull, brother.
Bull.”
III
“Sweating out her poisons in the
gym. On the chastity belt, indeed. The treadmill for a 20 ninuto. Then the 8 pound weights, alternate hands.
Two sets of ten.
“You were her closest family tie
when she short circuited. Didn’t yoiu see it coming? Her need to play out her
desires. To compete in the gentleman’s cosmos. All that military fan
dangling stuff.
Was that her reality? . Being a gun slinger in her
fantasy speakeasy?”
Marksman? Sharpshooter? Expert?
IV
At the 16th century
quad structured University....Professor Frederic Woellner’s”Sociological Foundations
of Education”?
“Here, sir. Present and accounted for.”
“Getting pinned to a clean cut
Gold Key frat of a “smiling passion”
“ A constancy like a gyroscope, not knowing where her spin would
land..
She pretends she’s a renaissance
dame ala Mademoiselle Curie before Pierre proposed and she became a Madame.”
V
Professor Woellner held up his
hands. “Heaven is on the way to it,” he said, standing up there on the
Education Building stage. “When I was younger, to win the Filipino sweater for
doing tricks with the Duncan yo yo on the Midwood cinema’s stage.
Professor Frederic Woellner
strolled to the front of the lecture stage.. Tore off his jacket....a white
sweater emblazoned .....
‘Filipino Duncan yo yo champion’
At the door , the gendarme held a
squirming wench , cutting class.
*****
“Heaven is on the way to it”
