elvis lives (1 Viewer)

[bee ewe kowski]

the boy was going to take the bus out
to see the
graceland mansion

then
the greyhound lines went
on strike.

there were only two clerks
and two lines
at the station
and the lines were
50 to 65 people
long.

after two hours in line
one of the clerks told the
boy
that his bus
would leave
as soon as the substitute
driver arrived

"when will that be?" the
boy asked.

"we can't
be certain," the
clerk answered.

the boy slept on the floor
that night
but by 9 a.m.
the next morning
the substitute driver
still had not
arrived.


the boy had to wait
in another line
to get to the
toilet.

he finally got a
stall, carefully
fitted the
sanitary toilet seat
paper cover,
pulled down his
pants,
his shorts
and
sat down

luckily
the boy had a
pencil.

he found a clean
space
among all the
smeared and demented
scrawlings and
drawings

and very
carefully
and
heavily
he printed:

HEARTBREAK HOTEL

then he dropped the
first
one.