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Saint Cobain? - 29/06/2001

I hate myself and I want to die,
the teenagers t-shirt read.
Apparently, a junkie called Kurt Cobain
said it shortly before his suicide.

Maybe that's harsh
but without the idolism of a fan
that's the way it seems to me,
clear cut, no nonsense.

I heard Nevermind in the early 90's
and a rock legend was conceived
or so they tell me anyway,
I liked it but never really got it..

Now these teens pay homage
to a troubled, suicidal pop star,
who took his life when they weren't
even in double figures.

Maybe I'm too old to understand,
maybe it's teenage fascination
with death and such like,
but I just don't get it.

To me this man took the easy way
took his own life at twenty-seven,
and committed the ultimate crime -
left a daughter fatherless.

I want to tell them he was just a man,
and not much of one at that,
if he hadn't died he'd be nothing,
a has-been soaked in booze and drugs.

In the end he was just a musician,
however talented he might have been,
he's not a god or a role model
just a man who couldn't handle fame.
 
© Nicholas Vosper 2001