Celebrity

Celebrity seems a hungry mouth to feed
A demanding child that wails, stamps its foot
and screams for fifteen minutes at the top
We were promised that, expect it now
even if Lennons and Kennedys must fall

A mirror image would bring it all back down
A comforting deconstruction, car bombs to candlelight
the supermodel barefoot in a faded robe
Pulitzer Prize for guys who walk the dog
An understandable order, once more from the top

Agreement to settle for five good friends
to mourn a death or celebrate a birth
No helicoptered headlines, just drop by
A conversation sitting on the floor, don't call
Your hug is all the celebrity I need