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The
Genesis Of Beat It
Our
Letter To Michael Jackson
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
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
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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