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In Memoriam Marc Bolan, by Ian Fletcher

16/9/2017

 
Was it forty years ago today
that Marc Bolan passed away?
Gentle superstar of the seventies
folk rocker then electric warrior
your poetic lyrics once fueled
a million teenage dreams!

A man now frozen in time
you died at just twenty-nine
a car crash ending your life
in the twinkling of an eye.

Oh, that you have become
the cosmic dancer of your song
though you will forever be
the twentieth century boy
of our memories.

Yet thus you transcend time
for your spirit and music
live on amongst us your fans
doomed to grow old and grey
who can only with the ancients
pray that whom the gods love
die young.

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