14 January 2012 Hardware Elvis -sonnet

This is from another random picture, one which shows an everyday Elvis purchasing items at a local hardware store.  Don’t ask me––I’m only relaying what the picture shows.  Now to get a theme out of this, well, good thing I like challenges...

14 January 2012

Hardware Elvis -sonnet

In line, he stood, Hawaiian shirt half tucked,

his wallet open, paint and nails conveyed

themselves past brush and hammer, what the fuck?

His sideburns, glasses, pompadour displayed

could hardly alter boredom clerks insist

must frame their day, their face, my time, before

I watched him pay within a hound dog’s bliss

and all shook up, I saw him leave the store.

Now, no one’s loved me tender let alone

put me in jail to rock or not, and yet

Kentucky reigned, suspicious minds atoned

for every burnin’ love I can’t forget;

as Elvis left the building, out to lunch,

I heard him say; thank you, thank you very much.

01-14-12

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