[Fredslist] The King Lives

[fklein at legal.org]

Elvis is 75 today and he is doing well. Below is my annual homage!
------Original Message------
From: Fred Klein
To: Pat Castrovinci
Cc: Fred Klein
Sent: Jul 6, 2009 2:18 PM
Subject: The King


            THE KING!

I saw the Great Elvis today
encapsulated on film
written off and explained away
and I tried to cry,
cry for him or cry for me
or was there something else?
Or what is gone,
or never happened,
or will never be again
and is lost forever?

He was the shooting Star of the Fifties
when we were young
and he stroked my stirring adolescence.
He could sing,
Man could he sing!

He was profane
and so tough,
so right
and I loved the way he moved --
it was very Rock 'n Roll.

He excited me --
turned me on,
lit me up.
He was the first,
he broke through
and found new ground.

He defied past practice,
revolutionized an entire industry,
energized my whole generation,
Indeed, changed the world.

And then he was fat,
swollen with excess --
his perfect body abused with drugs,
his manhood cuckholded by a neglected wife.

And now he is dead
and I was betrayed.
He could sing,
Man could he sing.
He was THE KING!

__________________________________
Fred C. Klein
Klein, Zelman, Rothermel & Dichter, L.L.P
485 Madison Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10022
(212) 935-6020
fklein at legal.org
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