Poem: Burden Love

Elvis truly believed he’d been given the luck of two people.

But I think you could count it as three.

His twin brother

had died 35 minutes before he was born.

There, his mother was caught in both the worst and best day of her life.

The still-born body of Jesse Garon Presley in a box on the kitchen bench.

Mama kept working so Elvis Aaron could have all of the …