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“Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” by Robert Archambeau

By Luke Stromberg • July 8, 2016 • E-Verse Universe

She, Sheena of the Jungle, the pulp-paged comics’ great white queen,
she, Sheena, born in slumped-out England, born

for young Will Eisner’s tabloid-writing scheme,
born of Jerry Eigner’s drawing, Eisner’s jiggle-in-the-jungle dream.

Reborn stateside nine months later (the money was better),
reborn a soft-core smash-hit shiksa, Jumbo Comics break-out dame.

Born first in the blur of Eisner’s novel-reading dreaming—
she, Sheena, born first in Rider Haggard’s one-hand-novel She

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Sheena born in the blur of the movie-goer’s dreaming
when Jeffrey Hyman (he’d drop Jeff, and go by Joey,

he’d drop Hyman, and then go by Ramone) caught her
in a seedy New York retro matinee:

kitsch TV for downtown’s nascent highbrow-lowbrow scene.
She, Sheena of the big screen, born Nellie McCalla,

born the butcher’s daughter (fifth of eight), she couldn’t stay
in dull Pawnee, hopped it from her butcher father,

hopped the train from dull Pawnee.
Reborn in chic L.A., she, Sheena, she’d drop “Nellie,”

pose for Vargas, pose it well and beach-front, pose it well, and not for free.
“I couldn’t act,” says Sheena, “but I could swing from trees.”

A pinned-up blonde, improbable as jungle queen,
improbable as her build, her frame, her curving fame, as in:

her 39-19-37, she, Sheena,
a big-screen screen-test six-foot queen.

She, Sheena, born again when Jeffrey (call him Joey) made
his infinitely probable 2 minutes forty, his infinitely perfect

four-chord chart-this scheme. Teens drive it up to 81,
in England make that 23. The hopped-up numbers scream

they know it: Sheena is a punk rocker, Sheena is
a punk rocker, Sheena is a punk rocker now.

 

 

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    Luke Stromberg

    Luke Stromberg is the Associate Poetry Editor of E-Verse. His work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Criterion, The Hopkins Review, Think Journal, and several other venues.

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