Poem - In Residual Memoriam
This poem was first publish in "Avoid Ninja Stars" by Bank Heavy Press.
In Residual Memoriam
With the end of
any old year
comes the swarm
of official and
unofficial video
montages of the
scores of
celebrities, movers, shakers,
athletes (good
and lousy), writers,
actors, plenty of
those damn actors,
who decided to leave
this realm of the
living
for one
more obscure
I watched one online
today
and fifteen
seconds in
before the first black
and white
picture faded in
a series of ads
popped
on the bottom of
the frame
anti-aging cream
pills to fight
memory loss
and a veterinarian
to the stars
“Do the agents still
get
the standard
fifteen
percent
of this action?”
I thought
I’m not up to
snuff
on how the union
handles this
Naturally not
everyone who kicks it
in a given year
makes it to the
final cut
I suppose even in
the end
it boils down to
who knows
who
and who
represents
who
Because a gig is a gig
and no one is this town
works for free
never
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