[New-Poetry] Miracles Sonnet

[James Cervantes]

Close, huh?  More accurately: one tires of riffing on Frida.

- Jim

On 1/22/08, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 1/22/2008 8:23:06 AM Central Standard Time,
> cervantes.james at gmail.com writes:
>
> On 1/21/08, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> wrote:
>  >In a message dated 1/21/2008 10:17:24 PM Central Standard Time,
>  >halvard at earthlink.net writes:
>  >
>  >
>  >  Miracles Sonnet
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo, after a long overland journey, arrives at a conclusion.
>  >  Frida Kahlo dons a helmet and an asteroid belt and goes to a ball.
>  >  Frida Kahlo appears to many, despite their rising cost, in corn
> tortillas.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo's success at Sotheby's surpasses all expectations.
>  >  Frida Kahlo takes Diego to task for leaning much too far to the left.
>  >  Frida Kahlo takes questions and answers prayers after press conference.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo expects nothing less than the best from her admirers.
>  >  Frida Kahlo rents near side of moon for her newest exhibition.
>  >  Frida Kahlo overtakes Mount Fuji as world's most famousest icon.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo replaces Virgin of Guadalupe as Mexico's most famous icon.
>  >  Frida Kahlo chosen by Bush to replace Rice as US Secretary of State
>  >  for remainder of term. Frida Kahlo arrested at MOMA for illegal entry.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo enters Guinness World Records as most popular saint's name.
>  >  Frida Kahlo adopted as mantra by billions of Buddhists worldwide.
>  >
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo painted too many pictures of herself but who doesn't.
>  >  Frida Kahlo should have used a dipilatory on that mustache but who
> doesn't.
>  >  Frida Kahlo never went to Rockefeller Center with a pickaxe she should
>  >have.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo was to be played in a film by Madonna why not but well why.
>  >  Frida Kahlo had bad taste in asshole boyfriends but who hasn't.
>  >  Frida Kahlo if she had any sensibiltiy would snuff all those candles.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo is boring but don't blame her for that she was home-bound.
>  >  Frida Kahlo is the Georgia O'Keeffe of the post-feminist set in ob/gyns'
>  >offices.
>  >  Frida Kahlo should have been Hawaiian she would have been cool in a lei.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo should have been Polish that sounds like her surname.
>  >  Frida Kahlo was probably a dish and she probably knew it so what.
>  >  Frida Kahlo would have been pleased that Salma Hayek played her in a
> movie.
>  >
>  >  Frida Kahlo deserves better than what we have made of her a silly icon.
>  >  Frida Kahlo was nicer than you might think if you think at all but you
>  >don't.
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>  Frida Kahlo is a two syllable answer to a long question.
>  Frida Kahlo is confused with Karo syrup by those who don't think.
>  Frida Kahlo has no faults when screen printed on shopping bags.
>
>  Frida Kahlo IS the many Salma Hayeks seen in Mexico.
>  Frida Kahlo was one of Diego's trophy wives.
>  Frida Kahlo would never have owned a cell phone.
>
>  Frida Kahlo was left out of Nighthawks at the Diner.
>  Frida Kahlo is a tattoo within a frame, is a shadowbox.
>  Frida Kahlo probably wore an ankle bracelet.
>
>  Frida Kahlo has a fruit diet named after her.
>  Frida Kahlo is readily available and within budget.
>
>  - Jim
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