The Diamond Line

The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Literary Magazine

By Isabelle Rogers

 

Rockstar, rockstar, 

my heart is full of grief. 

I recall you sang about it 

last night through your teeth. 

 

Rockstar, rockstar, 

my bones can take no more. 

When you left Orleans with my compositions, 

my love departed through the door. 

 

So, another chance is what you crave? 

Another batch of songs you wish to enslave? 

I say your avarice is much too grave and 

how I wish you’d just fade.  

 

Say what? You dare threaten my life? 

You wish to cause me so much strife 

just for denying what isn’t within your right! 

What a talentless oaf I behold this night.  

 

Cecilia, Cecilia! 

Why must you be so crass? 

Surely you know how crucial 

your works are to make my career last? 

 

Phone recording. 

Truth comes out. 

An audio file embedded in a video titled: 

 

BELOVED ROCKSTAR IS A FRAUD. 

 

TRUE SONGWRITER DESERVES THE APPLAUSE. 

 

 

Isabelle Rogers is a sophomore studying English with a concentration in creative writing and is a member of Delta Gamma. She loves writing stories, but poems have become a new interest of hers. One day, she hopes to be an editor for a publishing company.