Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Needed a Better Friend

"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" sang

Marilyn Monroe, dripping ice,

Which all around her limbs did hang,

Pink satin gowned and looking nice,

In "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" flick,

A film from 1953,

And U.S. Film Institute pick,

12th best film of century.

In 1962 in bed,

Her diamonds in a jewelry case,

Marilyn was found nude and dead,

A suicide in time and place.

Diamonds were not Marilyn's best friend

When life for her came to an end.