[New-Poetry] Celebrity

[Skip Fox]

How is that an error? Did it ever exist? Was it Everland? Where did they
drive off to? The Neverland of slick ease, vacuous cultural, candied
thinking. I think its apt. Ur-apt, in fact.

 

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My off the cuff occasional poem has a factual error...I didn't realize
Neverland was sold at auction about a year ago.
Finnegan


-----Original Message-----
From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 2:09 am
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Celebrity

That is quite a coincidence, it is The New York Times that informs me of all
what happens over there. Farrah's central shot replaced by Jackson's this
morning.
There is a saying round here:
Morto un papa se ne fa un altro.

As soon as a Pope dies, another one appears.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:42 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

Corrected copy of poem typed on the fly...



Celebrity



Farrah was dead. 
The paparazzi descended
on the Malibu compound
of her famous lover,

trying to get a shot, a single tear 


finding that rivulet of wrinkle
on of his puffy but still handsome face.


Just as Ryan rose from the couch, 
their cell phones started to ring,
and by the time he strode firmly
down the driveway to the front gate,
steady, ready to deliver20his final thoughts 
about Farrah's beauty and her life,


the SUVs were pulling away, speeding off.
Michael Jackson was dead.
They had to get to Neverland.





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