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Dear Michael

LOVEARTH would like to thank you Michael for all of the wondrous and  beautiful music and dance that you have given to us these last 3 decades. You are the King of Pop and a musical inspiration to a few generations now.

Personally, we met 18 years ago in an after hours club in Manhattan, called AM-PM. You walked into the club and your aura was brilliant. I walked up to you and said there is something very attractive about you and then I asked if you were an actor, you just walked right by me. This pissed me off enough to want to tell you to go somewhere.

Since I was known in the Club, I went to the VIP room and there inside the glass enclosed VIP VIP room I saw you. I walked in and I was about to give you a piece of my mind, when you said please sit down to me. We talked for around an hour on many different subjects. I remember asking you twice who you were, with your reply being, does it really matter. I also remember that there was a most beautiful girl sitting next to you on your left. At one point I told you I was an environmental humanitarian poet, who had just written a poem about how we are paired, so conflict will grow.


Somehow Succeed

Are we scared
Because we don't know
Are we paired
So conflict will grow

Are we bred
To learn to conform
Are we led
To kill and mourn

Will life cease
Because of greed
Or will peace
Somehow succeed

It's up to you
It's up to me
To change ourselves
To somehow see

Beat It (Video)
by Michael Jackson
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2788146


When I said "the divide and conquer are we paired routine, of I'm better than you, or my race is superior to yours, was like the Jets and the Sharks of West Side Story", I saw the light bulb go on above your head. The conversation ended and everyone left. A friend of mine who was the bartender in the VIP room said to me, "Mark you've got a pair of balls going in there and talking to Michael Jackson for an hour." It was than I found out who you were.

About a year later while watching MTV, the first song and video released off the new Michael Jackson album Thriller was about to be played. Within a few seconds of watching Beat It, I finally knew what was inside the light bulb that night at AM-PM. Giving you the idea for Beat It is one of the greatest accomplishments of my life. Your musical and dancing genius got the message out that, violence is not the answer and that we are are all the same. Knowing this was expressed on the largest selling album of all time brings a smile to my face every day of my life.

Thank You
Michael Jackson
Bless You
                       

Mark Elsis

May 22, 1999



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