Biodegradable?

(Day 15 of 112)

The World Wide Web is quite literally exploding with MJ-love. Everyone everywhere (including me) is writing eulogies and bidding farewell to the King of Pop.

Since my moment of mush has passed earlier and I’ve written about Michael Jackson the legend, it brings to mind the more obvious – Michael Jackson the disturbed.

On being told first thing in the morning that Michael Jackson had died, my immediate reaction was “what did he OD on?” And my instincts weren’t wrong. His family has submitted the body for an autopsy and it is suspected he ODed on painkillers.

While his music is unforgettable, Michael Jackson, superstar, started making headlines for something more than his music. He became infamous for his appearance (which changed him from black to white, human nosed to something definitely bestial), his marriage, his dangling children off balconies and lately his dubious activities with children. As the number of controversies grew, so did his music stop. No one had heard a song from the King of Pop in several years.

And so, having a discussion about MJ’s death with my sister and cousins, and agreeing that he was and will always be a legend, the topic was closed once and for all with the question, “after all his surgeries and face transformations, will he decompose?”

Eh.