Scott Ruescher

It would have been nice, that day in Memphis, if the only one, Of all the people I hoped would break into a song By the early Elvis Presley on my way to the site Of the assassination of Martin Luther King At the Lorraine Motel, had turned out to be, Not the unreasonably cheerful

The first time I saw Tabloid Mary, I mean the first time I really recognized her enormous potential For iconic bronze statuary, an archetypal model Of rural American poverty, one afternoon in 1962 As I sat on the couch watching television in a trance And nibbling toward the center of a peanut butter sandwich After