[New-Poetry] Celebrity

[Halvard Johnson]

Brand names never die.

Hal

"Those who cast the ballots decide nothing.
Those who count the ballots decide everything."
                          --Joseph Stalin


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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Anny Ballardini
<anny.ballardini at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> *From:* new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [
>> mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu<new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu?>]
>> *On Behalf Of *jforjames at aol.com
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2009 12:28 PM
>> *To:* new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
>> *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Celebrity
>>
>> 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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