Friday, August 1, 2008

Graceland and Evidence Of Good


MY FRIEND MOLLY CABE WHO TOOK A PHOTO OF HERSELF AT GRACELAND. AND LOOK WHAT CAME OUT. YES, IT'S THE KING. ALL HAIL THE KING.

The fact that Elvis can show up in a picture, the fact that Graceland exists, both of these things in combination with my friend Molly Cabe who came to me and showed me the Elvis Shows Hisself As God picture, which she took herself at the Graceland gift shop? It all points toward a higher being, a benevolent presence who can pop in at any time wearing the guise of the Mother Mary, the Baby Jesus, Elvis, Joan D'Arc and so on. We were moved to think of other evidence of good in our lives and we compiled a short list.

Jimi Hendrix
Shakespeare
Gram Parsons
Johnny Cash
Ella Fitzgerald
Andy Warhol
Kerouac
Nabokov
Plath
Homer
Sophocles
Capra
Dickens
Twain
Picasso
Kahlo
Rodin
JFK
MLK
Eudora Welty
Faulkner
Updike
Flannery O'Conner
Jackie Gleason
John Coltrane
Elvis Presley
Oscar Peterson
Abdullah Ibrahim
Obama
Bill Frissel
Mozart
Bach
Debussy
Colette
Woolf
James Baldwin
Augusten Burroughs
William Burroughs
France
Dorset
San Francisco
Larkspur
Calistoga
Leaf Season in New England
The Dawn
Sunsets
Making Out
Motorcycle rides
Coffee
Ansel Adams
Manhattan
Greece
Spain
Bananas Foster
Babies
Ice
Money
Hats
Swimming
Ice cream
Oceans
Beaches
Sexual congress
Anything at its peak
Sleep
Light Wind

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