A Flower By Another Name ... Is Worth Listening To

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I am known as

a Bird of Paradise

BUT

you can call me

Gossip Gertie

and 

I want to tell 

you

about the palm trees

that populate

Long Beach

and elsewhere:

 

They are nothing but

oversized toothpicks

with frilly peaks

and a goiter problem

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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