A Girl from Kentucky (The Pure Products of America, Much Later)

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Natural Bridge near Slade, Cumberland region, eastern Kentucky, Kentucky: photo by J654567, 18 April 2009

Banquo's Ghost, this time round, is
the link with everything as
the lonely girl at the broken down
filling station battles
Fate for the man she loves --
and will expose not only her body but her mind
to save the strange runaway
and the drunken brute of a surrogate
father -- played by Harry Dean Stanton --
but the real dark interior --
the autistic swamp child of the wilderness --
the fatality -- the girl from Kentucky --
is played by Kim Basinger
a trashy sixteen with no past
an angel on one shoulder sighing
but perched smiling on the other a Dark Plan Witch
will out --

Bald cypress and tupelo swamp, Ballard Wildlife Management Area, Jackson Purchase region, western Kentucky: photo by Southernky, 2009



Movie poster for the film Fool for Love (1985): image by Nehram2020, 2009

Young girl, Cornett family, eastern Kentucky: photo by William Gale Gedney (1932-1989), 1964 (Duke University Library Digital Collections)

Girl in cornstalks, Cornett family, eastern Kentucky: photo by William Gale Gedney (1932-1989), 1964 (Duke University Library Digital Collections)



Munger Moss Motel sign, Route 66, Lebanon, Missouri: photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 10 September 2009 (Library of Congress)