Popular Turn Off's (11)

Like the rest of the us,
popular singers will die.

When they die of old age
they are no longer the rage
that they were of old.
There is always a last lie
which they insist be told
to burnish their reputation.

Their (living) fellow musicians
always tell of the last major project
that they had made plans for,
the foundations for which were laid.
But it was so far short of ready.

The definitive proof of the plan
is the project will be talked about
but never be heard by the public,
who are told that it was so incomplete
that nobody knows what to do with it.

So the public never find out
what was real and what was not.


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