May 13th – 19th

Its five days before one of my best friend’s wedding.
I’ve got to pick up the tux this black
Thursday. While I’m there I also have to
switch out a defective button-up shirt,
an iron’s scar drapes three quarters around the
left wrist.

On these random happened between the above occurred:


1955

A wild crowd riots in
Jacksonville, Florida when
Elvis Presley said,
“Girls, I’ll see you backstage.”
Insane spectators cause the first such
rampage a
King’s performance
has ever triggered.


1974

Over fifty people,
in Washington,
were cut and sliced
as fans fought the ground and
the walls with bottles.
Shards of glass
leapt from beneath,

backflipped off cement barricades.
Points sharp.

The Jackson Five played
inside.


1976

North of London
Keith Richards,
of the Rolling Stones,
wrecked his car.
Drugs were found.
A fine levied later.
He still continues to
party.


1984

Dead at thirty-five,
Andy Kaufman.


1998

Los Angeles was the home
of Frank Sinatra’s death.
Heart attack.
Age eighty-two.

Seinfeld signed off,
too.

2007

Neil Kelly got
sunburned on the
whiffleball field.
Wrote this poem.