The Greatest Star Of All
Daniel Benzali
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Once you won't remember
If you said Hollywood, hers was the face you'd think of
A face on every billboard
In just a single week she'd get ten thousand letters
Men would offer fortunes
For a bloom from her corsage or a few strands from her hair
Today she's half forgotten
But it's the pictures that got small
She is the greatest star of all
Then you can't imagine
The way fans sacrificed themselves to touch her shadow
There was a maharajah
Who hanged himself with one of her discarded stockings
She's immortal!
Caught inside that flickering light beam
Is a youth which cannot fade
Madame's a living legend
I've seen so many idols fall
She is the greatest star of all
When he'd gone, I stood looking out of the window awhile. There
Was the ghost of a tennis court, with faded markings and a
Sagging net. There was an empty pool where Clara Bow and Fatty
Arbuckle must have swum ten thousand midnights ago. And then
There was something else: the chimp's last rites, as if she were
Laying a child to rest. Was her life really as empty as that?