Your Eyes

You know, it's weird...I'm sitting here and looking at a picture of Michael Jackson from the cover of the Thriller album--which, by the way, is the featured article on Wikipedia today--and I noticed something: even after all the ways he screwed around with his own face, the pain and trauma he put it through, and the hatred he must have felt for himself, he always had the same eyes. This sounds incredibly cheesy, but look closely. On the Thriller cover, he has this look on his face that, yes, is probably the product of a million makeup artists and photo assistants and cover art-artists...but still, there's something there. His eyes are very dark and very deep, and very...well, very knowing. Not only that, they're cool. Not a lot of warmth in those eyes.

Much later on, when he was this twisted little husk of a human body, he still had those eyes. He still had that far-reaching, focused stare that you can see in the young man with the white glove.

Dunno. Just dunno.