This is How I Want to Remember Michael Jackson

Melissa Firman
3 min readJun 25, 2019

a poem for the King of Pop on the 10th anniversary of his death

Michael Jackson’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — Image by Angelo Giordano from Pixabay

This is how I want to remember Michael Jackson.

I want to call my friend Jenny
on my white Princess phone in my bedroom.

I want to hear her dad’s voice on the other end
hollering for Jenny to pick up the other line.

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Melissa Firman

Writes about books, GenX, politics, life. Currently working on a memoir. www.melissafirman.com