Elvis
lips snarling,
hips swiveling
bopping and shimmying
like a Mississippi catfish
Elvis leaped from the
black and white box and
into the nation’s living room
in his unassuming,
backwoods way
this poor boy
ripped to shreds
the buttoned down,
zipped up facade
of the American dream
to the jim crow – duck and cover
‘are you now or have you
ever been…?’ world
he proclaimed –
‘let’s get real , real
gone fer a change’
and… oh,
did we ever!