BORN TO BE A STAR
Elizabeth Taylor
had eyelashes
that grew in double rows
(a genetic mutation called distichiasis
you could look it up)
Rather rare , and generally harmless
except when serving as they did
to frame wet violet eyes
And everywhere men falling
northward like the Nile
THE LADY WITH SIX FINGERS
Old, black, and sweet as lasses
little house on the side of a hill
in the red dirt of East Texas
Someone in the kitchen was Dinah
best pies and anything that fries
Special in a million ways
but that extra finger on each hand
she sure was proud of that
Don’t think she’d have traded Liz
for five carats on her third