[New-Poetry] Celebrity

[Anny Ballardini]

Even his death is becoming a business. The N.Y.Times has it still centered
on the front.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:07 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> point taken. stet it is.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu>
> Sent: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 1:40 pm
> Subject: RE: [New-Poetry] Celebrity
>
>  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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> *On Behalf Of *jforjames at aol.com
> *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 12:28 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Celebrity
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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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