Sinister: a century of elvis:

[***Rob B*** :)]

Here you go then James,

we were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round,
looking out the window.  it was quiet, and then in the car park across the
road we saw elvis - look, there beside the postman's van, looking in the
open door - he looked as if he was thinking about getting in, but then the
postman came back, and he swaggered off, up past the window and down the
stairs, and then to the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's
office, and he started licking the pavement.  every night now since we
moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about
half seven or eight o' clock every night.  and if we go and look outside
the door, elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in.  and then he
wanders round the living room, maybe sits down on one of the chairs or
even lies down on the floor.  he doesn't say much, he just lies there for
an hour or two, watching the tv.  we talk to him a bit, and then about ten
o' clock, he'll go away again, and not come back until the next night. 
there's a lot of lakes and stuff around here, around the house - although
it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite like the country, it's
been hidden - safe i suppose, made for night living.  there's a lot of
squirrels and birds, and stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there when
he's jumped over the fence on his way to prior's road.  sometimes you can
go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't
know where you are anymore, so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to
find you.  i suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why
he's come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels.  i read about
somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot.  there's these two videos
that we got for wedding presents - called the e-files, e-files one and
e-files two about how elvis is supposed to be still alive.  and one time
when he came round we were watching one of those, but he didn't say
anything he just sat on the armchair.  it was pretty much the colour of
it, and we watched it right through and then when it finished he just got
up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything.  the first few
times he came round i didn't speak to him at all, i wasn't really sure
what to say.  pam spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do
more than i do.  they have quite strange manners, they just went through
your stuff and looked through it, then maybe pick something up and play
with it for a wee while, but they'd never make any comment about any of
it.  seemed pretty rude to me.  i just watched whatever was happening with
him - less than pam, she talked to him and then, after a while i started
to copy that, tell him a few things, not really bothered about whether he
responded or said anything back or not.  i think the first time i spoke to
him we were sitting up on the desk and i said that i would tell him about
you, me and pam, and how it was that it we came to be living there.  i
thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he
came round so much, so i thought he might want to know how it was that it
came about.  we did it all over backwards until now.  first of all we got
to know each other, and then we met, and when we'd known each other for
about seven years we decided to have an anniversary, and that went quite
well, so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon, and that went well too,
so after that we decided that we'd get married.  that's why we're living
here now.  i used to think my dad was elvis, but i haven't told him that
yet.  i haven't told my dad either...


I know there are loads of mistakes in it... I'd appreciate it if anyone
could correct any of the more obvious ones, 'cos there are bits I just
can't seem to work out.

Love, Rob

P.S. talking about misheard lyrics, I thought it was '..there's these two
vineyards that we got for wedding presents..' and that confused me a lot!

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