After Michael Jackson Died

This will be my last Death of Michael Jackson post. Promise.

But Sean Michaels of Said The Gramaphone has written a poem so lovely that it needs to be shared. “After Michael Jackson Died” is an elegy that attempts to take stock of the man, the myth and the music maker. It’s a wonderful, thoughtful piece of work and the best thing I’ve read about MJ since his death.

”He understood why he had felt so alone, still & still still felt so alone. He understood why his father had hated him. He understood Tito’s gift, and Janet’s loss, and his own greatest mistake. He understood his willowy love, why Lisa Marie had said the things she said in precisely the way she said them. He understood why he had seen his father’s face in the mirror.”

Thanks to Carl Wilson and his amazing Zoilus.