Flash: Leibovitz’s Photo of John and Yoko
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Polaroid: Yoko Ono, in jeans and a black sweater lies on her back, a straight line. Her hair surges, above her head, a rooted chaos. She’s a rib sucked dry of flesh. He kisses her cheek. She’s unaffected. His touch adds only another layer to her. He looks like he knows the bullet’s coming. Five times coming.
He’s lost her once already. She’s still cold from being in ear-shot of the sound of him with another woman. Together they have survived each other. John curls naked and fetus-style at her side. His arms frame her face. His legs, bent into inverted V’s, encase her torso. Captured: the sight of a man becoming a shrine.
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