How Long?

How long, oh Lord, how long?

Somebody died, but I had not idea who he was. Everyone told me I did. I kept hearing the name on the news and then I saw it at CNN.com. I thought maybe he was a baseball player. He had a baseball player's name, close enough to the "Say Hey" kid to confuse me at first. But I had never heard of him nor seen him, and saying so seemed to confirm me as a liar.

Then everybody else began to die culminating with Michael Jackson. The tabloids say he was taking 10,000 pills a day. They say the boy was twisted. I admit, I'd heard and seen Michael Jackson.

Both Michael and this other fellow were fifty years old. Hard to believe. It just goes to show you.