"famous monsters of film-land" by DJ Wolfinsohn

the last time anyone saw her 

she was smoking Pall Malls

in the back of a town car

and ashing into a green glass brick.

now, rising from the surf like a giant, 

taller than Capitol Records,

wearing the broken Hollywood 

o like a halo,

she is barefoot and 

crushing all the studios.

she is picking up executives and 

hurling them into the Pacific Ocean.

later, their bloated bodies return with the tide,

bobbing like pin-striped manatees,

later pushed back out to sea 

by a great gray whale who doesn't give a shit about 

movies.

DJ Wolfinsohn’s first published work was a riot grrrl ‘zine. Her fiction and poetry can be found in Gone Lawn, HAD, Variant Lit, Brawl, Lost Balloon, Jake, Vestal Review, and on her website, debbywolfinsohn.com. Her 'zine can be found in the rock 'n roll hall of fame in Cleveland. Born in Detroit and raised in Wisconsin, she currently lives and writes in a 70's ranch house in Austin, with a large collection of rescue pets, rescue plants, too much yarn, and her wonderful family.