Based On An Illegitimate Word From ... NYTimes Spelling Bee

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This page is about someone

who never ever

could speak a single solitary

word of truth

 

It was originally written

during the first two weeks

of September

when I had to no choice

but to patronize

a SLEAZE BAR*

to watch 

The 2023 US OPEN

played in 

Flushing, NY

 

That is the town I grew up

knowing better than the back

of my pocket-picking hands

 

AND

I am publishing 

Alibi Billie's page

 in this god-forsaken

format

on the day after

my maternal Grandmother's

140th birthday

 

Had my alleged life 

taken a drastic change

yesterday would also have been

the 38th anniversary

of being a married man

 

Please note:

This page is easy to follow

IF + ONLY IF

you know and love

the game of tennis

[or]

you know and love

Googling 

 *The asterik

relates to the provable fact

that Long Beach 

is  the Sleaze Bar

capital of the USA

 

It is also the national capital

of Alcoholics Anonymous

 meetings

 

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Alibilly

a/k/a Alibi Billy

was a hillbilly boy

from Kentucky

some called him lucky

cause he had

one big tooth

but when he spoke

not one word

was truth

YET

he could make you

laugh or cry

with every ALIBI

and here's why:

 

"I was conceived on the interstate

between chaos and confusion

The first word I spoke was "Illusion"

 

Mamma was named Spike

and Daddy was a Dilbert

Mamma never played tennis

but she loved BRAD GILBERT

 

Who done be he—might you ask—

but cre-8-ing answers

is my favor8 task

 

I have a sister named KOKO

who makes me laugh

cuz her chosen surname was GAFF

 

Cuter than apple pie

with one strawberry

she coulda been a song

written by Chuck Berry

 

The world loved her

before she ever had a lover

 and every sporting magazine 

put her on the cover

with her always holding

a tennis racket

 

...Don't knock it

cuz tennis a game with

a gazillion dollars

in its pocket

 

And Wimbey Done

is its heart and locket

 

But strawberries and cream

shattered KOKO'S dream

when she got de-feeted

in the first round 

and that volume-N-us sound

of defeet could be heard in Heaven

where the Gods cried while munching

turkey burgers at the 7/11

 

But I gave comfort

to my sister Koko

with some pull and much pushing

"Don't worry Sis, [said me]

think of the meadow in Flushing."

 

New York, that is

and you will be 

the opposite of bad

when you worship 

at the throne of Uncle Brad

Gilbert, that is

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