milk monitor, he's still listening to Elvis in some of these poems, though actually the message of this one had gone over my head until I read your post, and realised that he was seeing Elvis in these bleaker days, perhaps (if I'm not over-interpreting McFadden) as a symbolic America:

WAY DOWN ELVIS

Running way down a long dark tunnel
through the basement of his Las Vegas hotel
Elvis - in his white rhinestone jump suit -
in the middle of his Memphis Mafia
runs through a very black patch, headless
in the dark, heading for the Exit.

While out of the gloom there sings a voice:
"Ladies & gentlemen, Elvis has left the building."

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It's a fabulous collection. Published by Lapwing Press in Belfast. Dunno if you can get it outside Ireland, though.