Elvis's Pelvis

*Elvis's Pelvis!*

Let us

pause while 
I delve us
into
ELVIS's
pelvis

One of histories 
past tenses
it lies stilled 
now in Memphis
where it's 
wiggling tempest 
ceased to shake
long ago

Here it's 
common consensus
that his death was 
quite senseless 
but they still 
feel his presence
at Graceland
you know

Where his hips
are reclining
on white satin lining
and no longer defining
all the ways 
he could flow
when he grooved girls
with hip moves 
in all of his shows

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But next to poor Elvis
and his now rigid pelvis
lies a twin 
brother's hip bones
that had no time
to grow

They had no time 
to shimmy
smiles from all 
the young ladies
cause he died
as a baby
fate dealt him
a blow

Come with me now
imagine!!
for one tiny moment
if there 
had been 
two Elvis's
shaking 
their pelvis's

Wouldn't that 
have been special
then we all 
would remember
Duet's of 
"Love me tender"

Maybe one would 
not end here
where only 
worms render
as they 
return to sender
all the flesh 
down below

Cause he went 
on a bender
using doctors 
to vendor
all the pills 
that brought thrills
and wound up 
with him killed

We'd all have 
one more Elvis
with a rather 
old pelvis
shaking winks 
from the ladies
wrinkled lips 
kissing babies
all those 
wonderful maybes
that fate took 
long ago

For they both 
lie in state
in the Tennessee soil
that cradles 
their memories
out back of their home
now through 
with life's toil
they've fallen to spoil

But what 
could have been 
haunts us
possibilities 
taunt us
from what now 
is just bones