Marilyn Monroe Michael Jackson
we all want to do it
at some level if not in secret
something beyond self
a giant
a god
a storied human more real than those in place at the table
this then gives us something
somehow to believe in
making us potential
bigger than self
this though must come from self
or self becomes a facsimile only to die a tragic death
then this too becomes myth
we yearn for something this big
and real