Born: 8/13/48 ... Died: 11/17/21 ... PETER IACANGELO

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This is the third obituary page

with the same format

The first two 

were 

Rudolf Isley

+

Jimmy Buffet

 

Infinity could be

another name 

for how many

happy feet

there are

—on Planet Earth—

because of the talents

of the Isley Brother

and the man

from Margaritaville

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Please excuse the quality

of the photograph below

Shot moments ago,

it is the masthead

of a college

literary magazine

from 1968

 

Sometimes MEMORY

gets very fuzzy

 

In 1968,

I was surprised

and delighted

to be listed 

as a "staff member"

 

Peter Iacangelo

graduated from

Suffolk Community College

that year

and moved to 

California

 

I did not see him again

until I attended

a Celebrity Chess Event

because my mentor

from Jefferson High School

insisted I attend

 

The year was 1995-ish

 

Another celebrity

in attendance

was Graham Nash

whom my mentor

defeated three games

out of three

 

I had spoken 

on the phone 

with Peter

in 1985,

shortly after

he was featured

on CHEERS in the

Cliff's Rocky Moment

episode

 

 

Meaning that after

Iacangelo was 

my poetry "editor"

during my first

year of college,

there was only

one face-to-face

 communication

between us

 

But the morning after

the Chess Tournament,

I had a phone message

from Peter Iacangelo

which consisted of

his recital of

one of my poems

featured in

IMAGES 1968

 

According to his

movie data base page,

Peter appeared 

on the "silver screen"

seventy times

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