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Everything you say
is either automated
or banal
Talking to you
Yikes!
I'd rather have
root canal
© PAUL OLIVERIO
With Mrs. CarPeo's Punchline
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Maybe I should be careful what I say here:
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to inspire you to get root canal.
Quite the contrary:
Deletewhat you wrote made me laugh.
Thank you
Is it true that Mrs. CarPeo's punchline
Delete—spoken first in her publishing house—
was suddenly appearing all over Manhattan?
Not only is that true but AT LEAST three other times
Deletecreative phrases that first popped out
of her luscious mouth circulated quickly
around the city of New York.
Not bad for a girl from Brooklyn
who presently dreams about NYC
at least four times a week.
And it pains Mr. CarPeo—her lesser half—
to admit he is never in
any of those dreams