Beginning To End Poem by Ima Ryma

Marilyn Monroe - first centerfold
Of the new Playboy magazine.
The nude picture, the tale was told,
Was young Monroe, fresh on the scene.
Five hundred bucks Hefner did pay
The nude calendar company.
Monroe, not paid, went on display
To become published history.
Hefner and Monroe never met.
He talked to her once on the phone.
An issue copy she did get,
But had to buy it on her own.

Next door crypts of the dead elite,
Monroe and Hefner at last meet.