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Jun. 28 2009 - 11:54 am | 193 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Michael Jackson on Michael Jackson

Image from the patent filed by Michael Jackson...

Image from a patent filed by Michael Jackson to describe choreography in "Smooth Criminal"

In his own eyes, he wrote poems.

Here’s a stanza from one.  In a way, he sent a eulogy to himself:

from “Poems by Michael Jackson”

… Soothsayers came and fortunes were told

Some were vehement, others were bold

In denouncing this child, this perplexing creature

With the rest of the world he shared no feature

IS he real?  HE is so strange

His unpredictable nature knows no range

He puzzles us so, is he straight?

What’s his destiny?  What’s his fate? …

via Poems by Michael Jackson.


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