A short poem written by Elvis Presley has sold at auction for $20,000. When I first heard that it was about a dead bird, I thought that it might be some kind of sweetly sad reflection on the poor robin's demise. But it's a bit nastier than that. The verse, written on his own stationery, reads:
As I awoke this morning when all sweet things are born
A robin perched on my window sill to greet the coming dawn.
He sang his sweet song so sweetly and paused for a moment's lull
I gently raised the window and crushed his fucking skull.
Nice. It was sold as part of an online sale of Elvis memorabilia alongside other items such as a jumpsuit he wore at a concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, which sold for $212,588.40, and the typed lyrics for his song 'Young and Beautiful', which raised $1,155.60.