Sense Sonnet - Acher

A Marriage Blown

Marilyn Monroe shot the scene
Over a New York subway grate
For "Seven Year Itch" movie screen,
Her swirling skirt revealing fate.
Director Billy Wilder did
Fifty takes to get it just right.
A crowd of thousands roared amid
Each revelation panties white.
Joe DiMaggio, also there,
Humiliated by the show,
Stayed through it with a grim faced stare,
While his wife smiled through blow by blow.

An ending marriage reinforced.
Marilyn and Joe soon divorced.