Lisa Marie Presley’s 2024 memoir “From Here to the Great Unknown” opens with “the bluebird,” a poem by German-American writer Charles Bukowski. The poem begins with these reflective verses:
There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you.
In the lines that follow, the narrator says he hides the bluebird inside himself, pushing him down and camouflaging him with vices such as smoking and drinking. However, he occasionally lets the bird emerge at night when nobody else can see or hear it.As a symbol of love, innocence, and divinity, the image of the bluebird shines in this beautiful poem. Riley Keough, Lisa Marie’s eldest daughter, who wrote the memoir after her mother’s death, chose to include the poem in lieu of a dedication.
