TWO MODELS
TWO MODELS
___________
"Game recognises game"
Popular saying
Used in some
Black people's
Conversations
Normally blurted out
When someone sees
Their best qualities
In another.
Example given:
Back in the 1950s,
A Florida
Cheesecake model
Didn't want to
Limit herself to being
Before flashing cameras.
So she switched positions.
The camera
Was in her hands
For a change.
The amateur
Photographer
In this tale--let's
Call her Bunny--
Was found by
Her other self:
A New York
City model
Visiting Miami
On holiday--let's
Call that one Bettie--
Leather corsets
Knee-high stiletto
Heeled boots
Were kept out of
Those photo shoots.
Bunny believed that
The female form
Could stand on its own
And that was no lie
Considering the sometimes
Pin-up had Manhattan's
Reigning pin-up
Queen Bettie to work with.
Potential best seller
Who could flex
Into any pose,
In many guises:
A housewife,
A vixen,
A splashing
Beach bunny,
A female
Tarzan in
Leopard skin,
A fisherwoman
On a boat reeling in
Her catch in the raw,
Decorating a small
Christmas tree with just
A Santa hat & a wink--
"Game recognises game"--
______________________
W: 4.25.18
[ From the book Discovery, Southern Arizona Press, 2024. ]
Dee Allen.
Mon 20th May 2024 02:45
M.C., you do have a point: Marilyn Monroe did have game, her psychological and substance abuse issues notwithstanding.
Diana Dors--England's own Marilyn Monroe--also had game in the 1950s. Popular on both sides of the Atlantic. As an actress and a model. Not bad for someone who was London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts' youngest student AND a charm school graduate--