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Elvis' Animal Abuse Poetry for Sale

Elvis fanatics haven't gotten to the bottom of the barrel just yet, but they're getting close. One of the items now available in a big Elvis auction is a handwritten poem by the King about a bird.

On yellow stationery printed "From the home of ... Elvis Presley," the King jotted down the rhyme he often recited onstage and sometimes used as his answering machine message. He found his muse, it seems, in a robin perched on his windowsill in the morning: "He sang his sweet song so sweetly, and paused for a moment's lull/I gently raised the window, and crushed his f---ing skull."

Apparently, this is what happens when you've sung 'Don't Be Cruel' one too many times.

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Louis Cypher

Many years ago, ESSO gas stations (of all places) had a cassette of obscure Elvis tunes for $5.00 with a fill up, including one entitled “Exsanguine Kitty,” which included the lines of poetry mentioned in this article. As i recall, it was some pretty sick stuff, alluding to necrophilia and snuff films. The liner notes credited the lyrics to Elvis, stating that he wrote it in his early twenties. I almost threw that cassette out, but reckon now it will fetch more than i paid for it.

April 13 2010 at 3:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Carlton W.Burgess

I heard him say that but it was all just good natured fun, so any P.E.T.A. don't get your panties in a wad.

May 06 2009 at 12:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply