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the semaphore
said to the hyphen
i was with your wife and
we danced the italic
exclamation
until our verbs
burst
without hesitation,
the comma said
OH MAMA
give me the colon
and our bodies
are bowlin'
a perfect score
until they wash up
on the shore
like burt lancaster
and deborah kerr
in
all punctuation marks
are deborahs
and burts
the ellipsis
is gonna kiss us
til it hurts
the umlaut
did twist and shout
and knock about
without
a fifth rhyme
it's no crime
when the semi-colon
gets semi-conscious
under the bus
laughing
under the hood
where the parentheses
pinned him
with pleasure
we
all
should
feel
that
good
!!!
© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
Inspired by
"The First Forty Nine
of
Ear Nest HemingSphere"
Bless his orgy
of
Prefaces
+
his much adoodle
about
no thing
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I dedicate this page to my cousin RICHARD KAMPE
ReplyDeletewho introduced a ten-year-old ME to Hemingway's
A Clean Well-Lighted Place
on Arthur Avenue in Lynbrook
in 1959
His mother was my Godmother
and his father was best man
at my parent's wedding
Their home was two blocks from the high school
where Richard met his heart throb, Susan
If all goes well, she will be returning
my phone call sometime this afternoon
Richard died in 2014
-Oliverio