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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

OFF THE WALL

by Andrew Hilbert


today Michael Jackson will be buried
but not
Joe Jackson or Al Sharpton

they're sure to be
                                        there
advertising whatever it is
they're selling

today on facebook
a friend (but i don't really know him)
compared getting tickets to see
the King's memorial to getting
the golden ticket to see Willy Wonka

some comparison.

Willy Wonka was alive.

in his death,
Moonwalker is still treated as an
item
a commodity


Andrew Hilbert has a degree in History at Cal State Long Beach and lives in Orange County, California.
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