Thursday 15 March 2012

Elvis is not dead






















Playing endlessly, like a looped show
There is a another world in my head
A place of memory. I often go
In black and white, where Elvis is not dead
The theme from Z Cars is heard clearly
And the unctuous TV host, Hughie Green
Says ‘I mean that most sincerely’
Like a cracked ghost, oozing through the screen
Before the new Wembley stadium
Music didn’t used to be so loud
Tarby plays the London Palladium
A blurred white horse holds back the crowd
Shielded from daylight in a downtown bar
Jimi Hendrix straps on his guitar

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