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ELVIS UPDATE
Elvis has been seen
Don't give me any shit about him being dead.
He's fat, old and very much alive.
I should know, he drove me home. No kidding.
I was hitchhiking on th eMassachusettes Turnpike,
complaining about the cold,
when a gold-painted BMW pulled over to a curb
and I heard a southern accent say, "Get in!"
On first glance I thought the driver was a snowman
with yellow hair.
On closer examination, and half a joint later
I discovered it was Elvis Presley,
wearing a urine stained sheet on his way to a Halloween party.
- Frank B. Hobbs

That was a poem written by this amazing punk rock poet named Frank whom I met on a street in Boston in 1992. He sold me a book of his poetry for $2 and I swear to God, it changed my life. This was before the internet and all these blogs and shit and here was this guy who was pouring his heart and soul into books of poems that he sold on the streets in Boston, NYC and San Francisco among many other places. He was funny as hell and I was so sad to hear that he had passed away quite a few years ago now. Unbelievably talented poet and very cool guy.....the world is much less interesting without him.