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Chandler Estates
+
Mt. Sinai
were a five-mile
beach jog
due west of
Rocky Point
I lived at Chandler's briefly
as a summer resident
in the same house where
Marilyn + Arthur Miller
had resided
twenty years prior
to that summer
I slept in
a converted broom closet
of the rear apartment
shared by Dr. Raft
+
my former girlfriend
My alarm clock was
an Irish Setter
who would lick my face
and my day would begin
A woman named Rowena
lived in the front apartment
and "hated Marilyn Monroe"
(the former resident)
because
—at all hours—
people knocked on her door
to hold a seance
+
commune with
the spirit of
the deceased actress
***
I knew some
older boat owners
in Rocky Point
who claimed to have
given rides to Marilyn
in their motor boats
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In 2001,
Suffolk County
purchased the property
and renamed it
"Chandler Estate County Park"
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How much of this is fiction?
ReplyDeleteNone of it is fiction but there is one qualifier:
Deletemy psychoanalyst living with my "former girlfriend"
is a subject we never discuss
-Oliverio