This Is Not ... This Is ... [TIN/TI #46]

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THIS IS NOT  
A mint portrait
of Ricardo Montalban

THIS IS 
A mint portrait
of Ricardo Montalban

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The first photograph,

despite evidence 

 to the contrary,

is not Ricardo Montalban.

It is a copy

of a small photograph

that spent ten years

taped to a teacher's desk

in South-Central Los Angeles.

The teacher had to remove

 a companion photograph

  of his mother because

     too many boys 

     approached the teacher's desk

      distracted by her beauty.

Most of the girls

who looked at the image

of the teacher's father said

You look just like him,

Mr. Oliverio

How wrong they were
but how welcome
their words    

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