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\"Laux\"<\/a> So where have I been? Tethered to my consulting job at ICANN and suffering from my worst carpel tunnel slash upper-back-nerve malfunction of the last year. So I've been unable to paw out Cher diatribes the last two weeks. And now I need to start cleaning the house for my parents' next-week visit. So I'll be MIA for another week after this.<\/p>\n

My thoughts and prayers to my Japanese friends and family who have their own friends and family in Japan right now living under the shadow of nuclear meltdown after last week's earthquake and tsunami.<\/p>\n

"They say atomic power could never hurt a flower. Holy smoke."
                        — Cher, 1979, <\/em>Prisoner album
<\/em><\/p>\n

My Sarah Lawrence College-mate Ann from Scarsdale, New York, sent me this new poem about Cher by poet Dorianne Laux. I love it when my obsessions collide: poetry and Cher. This poem starts out favorable, eulogizing the iconic-looking Cher of the 70s who was as "tall as a glass of iced tea" and gets to wear hokum outfits and has a "throaty panache," a voice of "gravel and clover." But then Laux laments the cosmetic changes of the 80s and 90s.<\/p>\n

I like how the poem ends, with an scene that I'm interpreting as an image of Sonny & Cher singing V.A.M.P. on that upright piano.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Cher<\/strong><\/em> \"Thebookofmen\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

I wanted to be Cher, tall<\/em>
as a glass of iced tea,<\/em>
her bony shoulders draped<\/em>
with a curtain of dark hair<\/em>
that plunged straight down,<\/em>
the cut tips brushing<\/em>
her nonexistent butt.<\/em>
I wanted to wear a lantern<\/em>
for a hat, a cabbage, a pi\u00f1ata<\/em>
and walk in thigh-high boots<\/em>
with six-inch heels that buttoned<\/em>
up the back. I wanted her<\/em>
rouged cheek bones and her<\/em>
throaty panache, her voice<\/em>
of gravel and clover, the hokum<\/em>
of her clothes: black fishnet<\/em>
and pink pom-poms, fringed bells<\/em>
and her thin strip of a waist<\/em>
with the bullet-hole navel.<\/em>
Cher standing with her skinny arm<\/em>
slung around Sonny's thick neck,<\/em>
posing in front of the Eiffel Tower,<\/em>
The Leaning Tower of Pisa,<\/em>
The Great Wall of China,<\/em>
The Crumbling Pyramids, smiling<\/em>
for the camera with her crooked<\/em>
teeth, hit-and-miss beauty, the sun<\/em>
bouncing off the bump on her nose.<\/em>
Give me back the old Cher,<\/em>
the gangly, imperfect girl<\/em>
before the shaving knife<\/em>
took her, before they shoved<\/em>
pillows in her tits, injected<\/em>
the lumpy gel into her lips.<\/em>
Take me back to the woman<\/em>
I wanted to be, stalwart<\/em>
and silly, smart as her lion<\/em>
tamer's whip, my body a torch<\/em>
stretched the length of the polished<\/em>
piano, legs bent at the knee, hair<\/em>
cascading down over Sonny's blunt<\/em>
fingers as he pummeled the keys,<\/em>
singing in a sloppy alto<\/em>
the oldest, saddest songs.<\/em><\/p>\n

"Cher" by Dorianne Laux, from The Book of Men. \u00a9 W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy the book<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more poems by Dorianne Laux<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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