My brother-in-law, Jim Spurr is a poet living in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
He wrote this poem about my husband and me.
The Earth All Shook Up
He's a jazz drummer,
my brother, and a smart guy,
Playing in a smart band.
The Katie O Combo.
And his wife is a looker
from Memphis.
She never knew Elvis
but she knows his haunts
and she knows the mystery
of the why and the need
for that man and that music
at that moment..
I know these things because
I know her
And I know the drummer-man.
She says
Memphis holds the secret
of it all.....
the stage, the shoes
the sideburns, the Blues
Beale Street.
America its plain self.
by Jim Spurr

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