(June 4,1953 / Albany, New York)  What do you think this poem is
about?  Virginia Woolf in hollywood  an article in a prestigious
journal claimed she won the Oscar because they made her act with
a rubber nose the nose transformed her from sex goddess to
tortured writer who ended up putting rocks in her pockets walk
in over her head and drown in a deep river it must have been a
great performance she kept her composure throughout even though
the rubber nose wanted to fall off after every cut i was
secretly rooting for the nose to stay on but how could it? it
was so unnatural  she just had to go  when she walked into the
river insiders on location watched the nose finally fall and
float quietly unfortunately the underwater camera jammed and the
most thrilling shot of the film was lost  hours later i couldn't
help think what a better writer she could have been if only she
wasn't forced to wear that damned suffocating rubber nose surely
the screenplay would have included humor and she might have even
believed she