15 Minutes of Fame (or shame)

"in the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes" -- Andy Warhol, 1968

American fame and glory

Now vulgarized

All sallow and whorey

Now summarized

As hollow and transitory

Now despised

As shallow and predatory

Author's Note

Reviews

[Kay]

The adjectives you use are great, especially ending on "predatory" since fame preys on our insecurities of not being high enough, known enough, wealthy enough. It's glorified, but vulgarized. Nice poem.

[Davidgeo]

Thanks kay. I'm almost never high enough myself.

[Nipplegrinder]

Word.
Like it.
Keep writing.

[Anjali]

Hmm.... Nice... Liked the concept a lot.. and the rhyming scheme is amazing. Good work!

[Richard McLin]

Fame is a lot different than it used to be with the internet, YouTube, and reality TV. This is a very poignant piece. Sadly a very true and honest piece of the price and description of fame.
-Richard

[Davidgeo]

Andy Warhol and Jean Baudrillard saw this coming a long, long time ago. I wonder what happens next with this all these new venues of hyper-exposure.... hopefully something good. It can't get that much worse. The world needs to boycott the Kardashian family first though.

[Cherrie Palmer]

What's scary for every degenerate who's picture hits the news there is at least 20 people sending them fan mail.

[Davidgeo]

It's normal to want to be popular... but it's not healthy how that is currently being accomplished and tacitly endorsed by the sensationalist nature of the ratings/hit count game. Mass murder has been sensationalized... couple that with a psychotic mind and the recent influx of spree killers seems a little less confusing.