chuck

When I was in the first grade,

a kid a grade above me
told me in that re­al­ly con­fi­dent way kids do when an adult has taught them a new and con­tro­ver­sial fact that

Elvis didn’t in­vent rock and roll.

It was re­al­ly Chuck Berry.
 

As a re­sult,

this is how I spent a year

in the ear­ly 1980s telling every­one
that Gong Show host Chuck Bar­ris also in­vent­ed rock and roll –

which in ret­ro­spect
seems as plau­si­ble as any­thing else

what with him be­ing a se­cret agent and all.
 

RIP Chuck Berry (1926–2017) and thanks for all the rock and/or roll.

 
up­date 10 p.m., 21 de­cem­ber 2017
RIP to Chuck Bar­ris (1929–2017) too – the real king of rock and roll, not Elvis Costel­lo.

 
 

—ja­son malm­berg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2017 Ja­son Malm­berg.

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