How ......

how could
(did?)
Don McLean
confine it
to one day?

in clumps
they die
but not all at once

nor was there one
day

and often
it was only
the music
not the musician

MDC
killed JL
so the Beatles
could never perform
on earth
again

but their music died
when they quit
making it

they are the ROCK

of Rock and Roll
and fit with Mozart and Einstein

and then there is the
endless list
of
other names

a plane crash
a bullet
drugs
or just
dead
before something was invented
to
kill
artists

poets,
on the other hand,
well,
some people
only wish
we'd stop
nobody is picky about
how

but if You
have given
any person
any gift

it behooves someone
to share it

or the music really will stop
and so
will everything else


--
Jonathan