Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:53:06 -0700

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Ilena,

Today in Smith's Recital Hall at San Diego State University the New Music Ensemble will be performing my song, "Silicone Marrows."

This is the theme song for my documentary project titled: "Framing the breast: A silicone breast implant trial as a postmodern witch-hunt."

Please post the lyrics for our women to read. Thanks, and much love.

SILICONE MARROWS

by

Marva Leigh Smith

Poor, oh poor, oh poor, O'Neill

Waht next pitiful order or judgment will you seal?

Your rhetoric of madness--smoke-signals--that's all.

"Last of Mohicans. . ." We will stand tall.

Women and breasts

Who would have guessed?

You loved neither

And now, silicone marrows their bones.

Standing on our court steps

Justice, we've been told

Lives inside,

But, those doors are long closed.

Women and breasts

Who would have guessed?

Children have suckled

And now, silicone marrows their bones.

Now surgeons cover their crimes

Red. Dying beauties inside

Are twisted besides

For lost beauty reckons these crimes.

Women and breasts

Who would have guessed?

Cancer won out

And now, biotech gives out

Silicone to marrow their bones.

The FDA hid far away

Bowing to science and stock market Gods,

While judges sneer into their chambers

Horrors unfold; the public untold.

It's the same cruel story. . .

Women and breasts

Who would have guessed?

Left disfigured am I

And now, silicone marrows my bones.

c. 1999