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the autopsy

 

This was the doctors’ report-

It was either a heart attack, or cardiac arrest

Because he carried the world aloft his head

And when the throb of the conscience is hard

For a mind of unrest set upon a stormy sea

I think that Michael Jackson had to die

Because fame pleasures the soul least than dust

The rush at which life comes,

Is the rush at which it swiftly returns

The most that a man achieves in spotlight

Is a fall from grace- unto the grave    

 

 

— emeka ozurumba, Jul 03, 2009

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Region, Country: Nigeria , abuja

Favorite Poets: christopher okigbo, wole soyinka, gabriel okara , odiah ofeimun- john keats, p.b shelley

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weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 11 months ago

oh spare us

Let MJ rest at last. Do you think eulogies add anything to the magnificence and disgrace of his life? Cheers, Jess