The Gospel of Barbecue by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Author:Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Kent State University Press

Memphis Resurrection

Who died and made you Elvis?

—Bumper sticker

The big rock by my door

is a plaster prop, after

all. I’m back to hear

screams for what I can’t

do, couldn’t do forty

years ago. Awkward

pelvic thrusts fooled

the camera and virgins,

but I have no more fish-

fry tunes left to dress

up on brand new plates.

This time around,

I spend all day singing

cracked Mississippi

homilies. Why

did I want to live

forever in the first place?

Salvation felt better dead,

floating home free

while my bones, secret

and brown, mingle

with old dirt.

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