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Once you had a lasso
once you had a rope
corralling cute tomatoes
but not one had hope
To be in your future
because your heart
had a suture
You loved
but three:
the Ma
the Pa
and
the Sister
You always wanted
to kiss her
Which you do
every Yesterday
and it is fun,
dating back
to 1971
So you live
and you learn
and you think
"Hey pretty girl"
but all do is
wink
then reach for
a drink
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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Two of them didn't make it past the tenth grade
ReplyDeleteand the third one needed my math tutoring
when she was in high school.
But they represent the greatest teachers
I have ever had.
I knew them as my Mother,
my Father and my sister Lynda
All long dead but I do not miss them one iota
because they are there in my every breath
I take and every step I ever walk
-Oliverio
Very alto? Hmmm Very basso? Often. Very Soprano? Totally.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been kind to alert people there was no room.
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