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You've of course heard of urban legends. Perhaps this is one that has gone past when you were paying attention to something else. You know, like making a living or surfing the net elsewhere. Ok, this might have slipped through the cracks of your busy lifestyle.
Most people have heard that Marilyn Monroe died under rather suspicious circumstances. Some have even heard of the notorious diary that Marilyn was suppose to have kept that is missing. Some believe the FBI took it as a favor to the President and his brother and destroyed it. Of course Hoover hated those New England New Dealers, so I doubt that one. Some believe the housekeeper in league with her psychiatrist who immediately stole it to keep the public from knowing their part in the starlet's death. Could the Mafia have taken it as a favor for the "Chairman of the Board"? Or perhaps it was Peter Lawford who right up to his death would not discuss the night Marilyn died?
So what might be the last great quest of the Twentieth Century? Could it be the Quester was given a dog-eared copy? Might it have been hidden away until forgotten? Perhaps it got tossed in the trash by a young relative. They could have inherited a roll-top desk and found it in a secret compartment. Maybe it was thought to be worthless junk. If a dog had overturned a garbage can and chewed for a time on the diary, the pages would be scattered and torn. The pages would be scrambled and most certainly out of order. Days and dates would be left out and pages were well mixed. That's probably the way it looked when someone might have sent it to the old Quester. It will be presented as received.
As a starry-eyed romantic, the Q submits the following scenario. Marilyn Monroe was not only kind and gentle but had a novel way of looking at her world. Every since she changed her hair color her sense of humor reared its lovely head and probably caused her to do strange and wondrous things. Could it be she collected dumb blonde jokes? Maybe that was what her diary was all about. In that case what might such a diary reveal?
Don't expect these pages to be anything near a diary of linear progression from young to middle age for the movie star. When pages are tossed up and mixed it doesn't work that way. (What a shaggy dog story that would be....)
Marilyn was a great admirer of Carl Sandburg. He had read from his work at Kennedy's inauguration and she related to both men. Interestingly enough both men related to her also, one more than the other. She loved his words: "I am the people-the mob-the crowd-the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?"
Throughout the late fifties and her short time in the sixties, Marilyn was conscious of the people, the mob, the crowd, and the mass. Montgomery Clift once said, "I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people."
For Marilyn there were no "wrong" kind of people. One time she made the statement: "I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
One time when someone asked about making herself a movie star she replied: "And I want to say that the people - if I am a star - they made me a star, no studio, no person, but the people did. Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it."
Marilyn also related warmly to the average fellow on the street. Once she related: "In the morning the garbage men that go by 57th Street when I come out the door say, 'Marilyn, hi! How do you feel this morning?' To me it's an honor, and I love them for it. The workingmen - I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, oh, it's a girl, she's got blond hair and she's not out of shape, and then they say, "Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!" And that has its - you know, those are the times it's nice, people knowing who you are and all of that, and feeling that you've meant something to them."
"People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony."
Some people are naturally psychic about themselves and their future. What must she have been thinking when she said, "Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you would never complete your life, would you? You would never wholly know yourself..." And she never really did.
Respecting her idol, Carl Sandburg, Marilyn did some poetic work with words.
Life - I am of both your directions Existing more with the cold frost Strong as a cobweb in the wind Hanging downward the most Somehow remaining Those beaded rays have the colors I've seen in paintings - ah life they have cheated you... thinner than a cobweb's thread sheerer than any- but it did attach itself and held fast in strong winds and sindged by leaping hot fires life - of which at singular times I am of both your directions - somehow I remain hanging downward the most as both of your directions pull me. - Marilyn Monroe -
I I left my home of green rough wood, A blue velvet couch. I dream till now A shiny dark bush Just left of the door.
Down the walk Clickity clack As my doll in her carriage Went over the cracks- "We'll go far away."
II Don't cry my doll Don't cry I hold you and rock you to sleep Hush hush I'm pretending now I'm not your mother who died.
III Help Help Help I feel life coming closer When all I want is to die - Marilyn Monroe -
Here goes - Good nite Sleep tight and Sweet repose Where ever you lay your Head- I hope you find your nose- - Marilyn Monroe -
From time to time I make it rhyme but don't hold that kind of thing against me- Oh well what the hell so it won't sell what I want to tell- is what's on my mind taint Dishes taint Wishes it's thoughts flinging by before I die and to think in ink - Marilyn Monroe -
Night of the Nite-soothing- darkness-refreshes-Air Seems different-Night has No eyes nor no one-silence- except to the Night itself - Marilyn Monroe -
To The Weeping Willow
I stood beneath your limbs and you flowered and finally clung to me and when the wind struck with ... the earth and sand- you clung to me. - Marilyn Monroe -
I could have loved you once and even said it But you went away, A long way away. When you came back it was too late And love was a forgotten word. Remember? - Marilyn Monroe -
O, Time Be kind. Help this weary being To forget what is sad to remember. Loose my loneliness, Ease my mind, While you eat my flesh. - Marilyn Monroe -
I've got a tear hanging over my beer that I can't let go. It's too bad I feel sad When I got all my life behind me.
If I had a little relief From this grief Then I could find a drowning straw to hold on to.
It's great to be alive. They say I'm lucky to be alive it's hard to figure out - when everything I feel - hurts! - Marilyn Monroe -
Marilyn was certainly more than an actress. She was an artist as well. She did three known pen sketches. She also had an original way with doing a song. Contrary to some of her outspoken critics, she definitely had talent, talent in many different areas.
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