Nellie McClung
My Sex Is Ice Cream
and
Irish Manifesto
My Sex is Ice Cream... excerpts
Nellie McClung using Marilyns own poetry as inspiration, recreates with honesty and sensitivity, the life of one of the most celebrated and contreversial women of the century: the story in Marylins voice, of her complex marriages and her many relationships with movie moguls, politicians. and poets.
Published in 1996 by
Ekstasia Editions Canada Ltd.
Box 8474 Main Postal Outlet Victoria B.C. V8W 3S1
Nellie McClung lives quietly at the Casa Contenta in Vancouver B.C. Canada with the cat, Val. She is the author of four books,Pomegranate, Baraka, Tea With The Queen, and Duenda. Nellie McClung is the granddaughter of the suffragette of the same name. She is a dweller by mountains and sea.
Payne Whitney Clinic
I'm my mothers daughter
grandmother
mothers
uncle
all braught into
insane asylum
ghosts
metal doors
bars on the window
what are you doing to me
what kind of place is this
they are looking at me through the peephole
well if I am insane
I'll act insane
rip off all my clothes
give them their moneys worth
somebody get me out of here
Just like the orphanage
like an animal in the zoo
an object of curiosity
for every passing person
who want to look through the glass pane
what I was always afraid of
is happening to me now
Joe!!!
get me out.
Gossip
they say
when I finally
signed
the movie
contract,
I said under my curls
Good! Now I'll never
have to do another
blow job!
Defend me
They say that
about every
Hollywood
starlet
Motif
RFK also told me
he "could have eople done away with"
I put this in my diary
& told Bob Slazer
he had promised to get a divorce
from his wife & marry me
when this didn't happen
I threatened to call a press conference
&denounce him
& went around telling everybody
Bob said it wasn't very smart of me3
Years later, someone
will try & sell
my little red diary
Eight Point Manifesto for Ireland
by Nellie McClung April 1997
1. Send Jimmy Carter, President Mary Robinson, Stella O'Brian now living in London, fifth in line to the Irish throne, and me ( going no closer to Belfast ) to go to Ennes Killen to speak out to the Irish and knock some sense into them. Alexis McDonald will lead the country
2. Appoint Joseph Kennedy to chair the monies coming from American millionaires to the IRA, to keep the money and use it for new businesses in Ulster. Call it the Parnell- O Shea fund.
3. Like the English guest children during the war, bring the children out of Belfast and Derry, aged four to fifteen, and bring them to Vancouver, Canada. Give them a normal life until matters are settled in Eire.
4. The Popes in history had greater temporal power and excommunicated countries that misbehaved. Urge the Pope to excommunicate Northern Ireland, and have the Queen as head of the English Church excommunicate the protestants.
5. The hate will never be settled in our time. Do ethnic cleansing on a grand scale. Give Antrim, Down and Londonderry to the Protestants who make up 58% of the north. Put a wall around them and let them get their orders from the Queen, as English as they want to be. Keep Armagh ,Tyrone, Fermanegh and Donegal for the Catholics. To stop the killing, separate, wisely.
6. The late David Young of Vancouver and London, spiritualist and psychic, grew up in Belfast with his little friend Wendy, a medium in the spheres, to talk to in the orphanage. He astounds his audiences with his clairvoyance. Build the David Young Psychic Centre at BallyAnna out from Belfast and have everyone in the world, celebrities, come to talk there. This gives the Irish something to look up to.
7. On March 17th have everyone in the world March for Ireland to get some sense.
8. I am waiting for the Queen, the Prime Minister of England and the American President to say to the Irish publicly " A terrible mistake was made in the time of Henry the Second when the English Pope Adrian in Rome gave away Ireland to the English. This led to the Irish not being able to teach their children in the schools, not to be able to hold property, not to be able to vote in their own land, not to be able to wear Irish dress, and not to be able to speak the Gaelic language, all of which culminated in the potato famine, the first genocide in history." I am waiting, I am waiting.