YOUR HOUND DOG AND MY BLUE SUEDE SHOES
The contortions that Elvis contorted
While singing "Well, bless-uh my soul"
Disgusted a critic, who snorted:
"So this is rock 'n roll!"
His call for moral repentence
End with the following sentence:
"It should behoove
Young Mr. Presley
Not to make his body move
Quite so expressly."
Health dissipated,
With a belly outrageous,
He still titillated
The folks in Las Vegas.
Then something led
The King on his "throne"
To mix drugs on his own
And to drop over dead.
His daughter (whose name is Lisa Marie)
Once was married to Michael Jackson,
The singer who, through surgery,
Tried to look Anglo-Saxon.
So don't believe the National Enquirer
Where it says in bold-faced script
That Elvis was seen alive by a fan or admirer.
No, he was just turning over in his crypt.
NORMA JEAN, SYMBOLIC SEX QUEEN
Was being a famous sex toy
Enough to vex and annoy
Marilyn Monroe?
Did she feel so low
That she did herself in
By cancelling her own adrenaline?
Did provocatively lowered clothes
Contribute to her overdose?
Did her image on celluloid
Push her to her final void?
Did her marriage with Joe Di Maggio
Cause this tradaggio?
Didn't she get enough hugs?
Is that what pushed her over to drugs?
Or... if it was not a CIA job,
Was it a plot by the mob?
WORDS OF FROST WARM MY HEART...
Robert Frost I did not know.
His verses I've known somewhat, though;
His copyrights won't interfere
If I should dare to twist them so.
My little mind must find it queer
That Frost's verse seems so New Hamp-sheer,
Even though the Golden Gate
Was where he started life's career.
I think it was poetic fate
That put him into such a State.
His meters often seemed to leap
Toward Pulitzers at any rate.
His words are lovely, strong, and steep,
But they have meaning dark and deep,
And now their author, too, must sleep.
And now their author, too, must sleep.
"ICH BIN EIN IN-BETWEENER!"
In between the halcyon days of power
(When we honored General Eisenhower)
And the days of the Vietnamese War
(Which was glamorous as a cuspidor --
But without the amenities),
Came the Kennedys.
Jack and Jackie
Knew just how they had to dress...
And thus were never tacky
(Except for the act that Jack would do
With any actress
Out of public view).
On the upside, Kennedy blew the whistle
On the Cuban missile
Crisis.
He mastered rhetorical devices.
The First Couple seemed like filigree
Upon the U.S. citizenry.
But this was not Camelot
(And Lyndon Johnson was no Lancelot).
I don't mean to be callous,
But have you ever reflected
That the limousine in Dallas
Should have been better protected?