NVN Thursday: THINGS EASIER THAN MARRIAGE TO IKE
by Elaine Sorrentino
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Sprinting across the I-30 in the dead of night the leggy legend with infectious charm turned trauma into triumph, swapped bloodied and beaten for surviving and thriving in an act of self-preservation. She dared to be the needle that pricked the heady Love Team balloon, indestructible Tina in leather and denim scrubbed toilets scaled the Eiffel Tower in heels unearthed her pain instead of maintaining her 16-year limelight lie, transforming thirty-six cents and inconceivable drive into the Queen of Rock, self-love, that second-hand emotion had everything to do with it, Buddha offered nirvana. When the shine was off the penny she was at peace slowing down, asking her devoted public not to disturb her before noon.
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Elaine Sorrentino has been published in Minerva Rising, Willawaw Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Ekphrastic Review, Writing in a Women’s Voice, Global Poemic, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Agape Review, Haiku Universe, Sparks of Calliope, Muddy River Poetry Review, Your Daily Poem, Panoplyzine, Etched Onyx Magazine, and at wildamorris.blogspot.com. She was featured on a poetry podcast at Onyx Publications.