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| © Oliverio © |
Do I wish I were there?
Absolutely Not
The Knicks are here
in my heart
and soul celebrating
—over and over—
every minute
of
their championship
and extraordinary
team unity
There is no way
I want
to get
ensnarled
anywhere in
Manhattan
or
any of
the five
boroughs
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Nor would I travel to New York to visit
ReplyDeletefriends or family...only to discover my same-age friends
all look thirty years older than me.
Every week I speak to an Aunt who sounds like
a fifty year-old sexpot but is actually
99 years old.
NO ... I do not want to be anywhere east
of Texas or Oklahoma but remove me
from Long Beach and I start to shiver
-Oliverio