2008 – remembering the king

A double acrostic I wrote last year:

Tuesday this year brings your birthday. Each
hand claps another for the king. Adieu,
aerialist. Once the wire held your feet down;
now snapped ends lie touching air. We, awestruck,
karaoke your memory appassionato.

Your rhinestones at the last were off,
obbligato forgotten, your gyrations occluded by flab;
ubiquity buried you.

Vagabondage maybe was your curse. Your
entropic rushes between snapshots ran…
ran down. Your trips to the stage became ennui
yawning, a hunk of hunk of burnin’

mediocrity. This year your deathday will fall
unnoticed on a Saturday. Your outgo
crammed into “this day in 1977…” TV,
having electric memory, might run a tape.

2 Responses to “2008 – remembering the king”

  1. Charlie says:

    Dude! To both Alvin and Arthur, I am intrigued by this acrostic dealy! Very awesome! And yeah, I’m totally just showing my ignorance here, but I just think that’s way cool. XD Alvin, I can’t say I expected you to write an Elvis poem (not that I expected you to *not* write an Elvis poem either), may I ask what your inspiration was? Was it a birthday news blurb?

  2. Tracy Ganis says:

    Great post, I will be sure to save this in my Mixx account. Have a great day.

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