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p><p id="c07d">without having to be sex symbol without having to have sex symbol</p><p id="ce7c">need to be constantly culturally coded as dumb, shallow, fake, easy</p><p id="5676">If only all of this Instead of</p><p id="bbb7">letting all of the shallow get in Letting all of the troubles get in</p><p id="b7d5">letting the stereotypes and sexism get in and feed and feed</p><p id="7298">taking up all of the space in the mind, your mind, our minds</p><p id="31ca">The life of the mind, yours, mine, saves it can save, and we know</p><p id="994a">Reading books, reading plays, reading communist theory Growth potential purification sigh- oh, — but yet -</p><p id="2612">Beautiful and sad Beautiful and sad</p><p id="b47d"><b><i>Jenny Justice </i></b><i>is a <a href="https://link.medium.com/54FKW36WPX">mom</a>, <a href="https://link.medium.com/qepG742WPX">Sociology</a> instructor, and writer. You can follow her on <a href="https://medium.com/@jennyjustice">Medium</a> and at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jennyjusticewriter/">Jenny Justice, Writer</a>. She has been recognized as a Top Writer on Medium in Poetry, Pa

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Marilyn

A poem

Oh Marilyn Every time we watch you

Every time I think

How beautiful How sad

And I know that is unfair to you, to women to reality

It was more complex We are more complex

You were more complex Than just beautiful, just sad

But sigh, this film, that dress All body all light

And to think and know you read so much You read and wrote

Your mind was as hot as the rest of you But you knew you could not fight that fight

But oh if you did If you had tried

Or rather, if others had tried with you If feminism had tried then, if just being was enough

without having to be sex symbol without having to have sex symbol

need to be constantly culturally coded as dumb, shallow, fake, easy

If only all of this Instead of

letting all of the shallow get in Letting all of the troubles get in

letting the stereotypes and sexism get in and feed and feed

taking up all of the space in the mind, your mind, our minds

The life of the mind, yours, mine, saves it can save, and we know

Reading books, reading plays, reading communist theory Growth potential purification sigh- oh, — but yet -

Beautiful and sad Beautiful and sad

Jenny Justice is a mom, Sociology instructor, and writer. You can follow her on Medium and at Jenny Justice, Writer. She has been recognized as a Top Writer on Medium in Poetry, Parenting, Reading, Education, Books, Racism, Feminism and Climate Change, so far.