A good epigraph for Michael J

I see that, just as I feared, mass hysteria rules over Michael Jackson.

The politicians, as usual, sought publicity. Jesse Jackson* whizzed off to get his picture taken, hotly followed by Al Sharpton*, who makes him look the epitome of honesty and moderation. Oily Cameron and Useless Brown sought to exploit it. Idiots compared him with Mozart.

All this excess, to me, diminishes and trivialises his death.

My friend Mike Anderson sent me this, by a poet I had never heard of – Constance Urdang – which I thought put him more in context:

He thought it was Eden – but it was the world.
And so, until it was too late, ignored the lucid glass that sealed the windows hard.
Even forgot to pronounce the “word”.

But at the end, when the sky hurled boomerangs at him
And the thunder roared at him with one terrible and final chord –
He knew at last that he had not been spared.
Ran screaming from the mirror – and was mad.

* If you’re ever at a loss as to how to make a living, get into the Reverend business – another good example is Ian Paisley, who has a bogus degree from a phoney U.S. University.

About the Author

In 2003, the Chartered Institute of Marketing named Drayton one of 50 living individuals who have shaped today’s marketing.

He has worked in 55 countries with many of the world’s greatest brands. These include American Express, Audi, Bentley, British Airways, Cisco, Columbia Business School, Deutsche Post, Ford, IBM, McKinsey, Mercedes, Microsoft, Nestle, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Unilever, Visa and Volkswagen.

Drayton has helped sell everything from Airbus planes to Peppa Pig. His book, Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing, out in 17 languages, has been the UK’s best seller on the subject every year since 1982. He has also run his own businesses in the U.K., Portugal and Malaysia.

He was a main board member of the Ogilvy Group, a founding member of the Superbrands Organisation, one of the first eight Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Direct Marketing and one of the first three people named to the Hall of Fame of the Direct Marketing Association of India. He has also been given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Caples Organisation in New York and Early To Rise in Florida.

3 Comments

  1. Suz

    That poem is fantastic! Was it written expressly for MJ?

    Your assessment of Jesse Jackson & Sharpie Charlatan is spot on. Vultures feeding on carrion.

    I haven't heard what the UK pols are saying.

    I've been watching a lot of old footage on Michael. It struck me, seeing it all at once, that just about everyone in his world is effed up. Not just him. His father, the mother of his kids, Lisa Marie Presley–even the nanny.

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  2. Eileen

    Loved the poem

    Re your comment on Reverends.
    I was at a funeral in the Isle of Man recently and the minister grinning like a Cheshire cat in his designer suit(I think he was delighted to have such a well attended funeral due to the young age of my cousin's husband when he died), told us all he was well paid for doing “this job”, then he proceeded to use the funeral as a recruitment drive and told us all to speak to the widow after the funeral if we were interested in signing up!

    He also said he didn't agree with organised religion, I imagine you have to be pretty organised to collect 10% of peoples wages!

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  3. ajay

    i like this poem..its really funny..the words you used in this is very good..
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