HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOODOde to Hollywood land of make believecity once founded on other's dreamsthe reality, not always what it seemswith truth far stranger than you could conceivewhere beauty is worn like a cufflink on a sleevea beauty in excess which is taken to extremesBut it closes her in like a muffled silent screamas she's too old to work but too young to grieveThe lights from the screen now flicker in her eyesAs she dives final scene from the top of that signher beauty once envied she grew to despiseas the fan mags predicted her own demisefor her art would never be compromisednot even when she was on her decline Martine Fair, May 27, 2010