(Based on a true story)
***
On his eleventh birthday,
Elvis Presley got his first guitar,
a gift from dear mother.
He had been praying for a shotgun.
Years later, Elvis shot a television
because Robert Goulet was on the screen,
singing.
***
Elvis wanted a shotgun for his birthday
and he got a guitar instead.
Well, y’all know the rest.
What if he’d got what he wished for?
What if young Elvis got the gun?
I see Elvis killed in a shoot-out at a roadblock
after a botched convenience store hold-up.
***
This started out to be a suicide note.
I am going bad one day at a time.
I was fifty years old
when I finally realized the chances
of me being one in a million
were a million to one.
***
I have been crazed.
