Write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.

Use a sonnet rhyme scheme.

Use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave).

Use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet).

Nearing the dull lights of snow

a star died on the white, extinguished

on a crash with his iconic Renault

in a route to all undistinguished.

The papers ran the usual game:

the fountains of sordid obituaries,

tarnish the fiery stage name

with the delusion of contemporaires.

I read all of them; won't forget him.

But who will others like me remember,

who read everything that bedim

the eyes with echoes on print letter?

Forget. Forget the star awful end,

One must find a way to time better spend.