Excerpt for All The Elvis's Have Left The Building by Gerard Beirne, available in its entirety at Smashwords
All THE ELVIS’S HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING
By
Gerard Beirne
Copyright Gerard Beirne 2011
Published by Fallen Timbers Press at Smashwords
It was all the cadillacs, all the mansions, all the jewelry and gold.
All the frankincense and myrrh, all the futures as yet untold.
All the stars to be followed, all the skies to unfold.
It was all the shepherds, all the stables, all the shacks and might-have-beens.
All the gifts of cars and houses, all the neon Las Vegas scene.
All the jumpsuits, all the sequins, all the virgins, all the kings.
It was all the deserts, all the heights, all the forty days and nights.
All the darkness, all the fame, all the loneliness and pain.
All the hanging out on crosses, all the suffering for the masses.