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......The Poetry Of.
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Wayne Noone
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The Whitening Of Jennifer Lopez
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You remember her, hip-hop pop queen J-Lo
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diva of BET with the great
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can and paramour of Puff Daddy
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P Diddley? Well, now she prefers
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"Jennifer" or just "Jen," cause
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she's linked up with white bread
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drunk Ben Affleck, Matt Damon's prettier
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dumber half, and as I write this
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she's sitting in a tub of Clorox
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straightening her hair and planning ways
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to anorexersize mucho inches off
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that delicious derrière.
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Her next film will cast this would be
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debutante with protoaryian Ralph Fiennes,
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and by then we imagine she'll
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be wearing pillbox hats ala Jackie O
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and crossing her legs
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demurely at the ankles.
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Oh where is the little Hispanic girl from Brooklyn
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we grew to love?
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And speaking of love, I'm completely
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queer on David Guest, Liza's
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better half. I could stare
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at him all day.
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I think he's an alien.
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Stan
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Gray haired old bird
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caught up in a layoff then
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started with Allied Security,
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at the front desk
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in the building where I work.
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Stacombed his hair in a little wave
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in front like we all
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used to do.
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Sometimes
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I'd pick him up coffee when
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he couldn't get away,
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two creams, two sugars.
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He liked to eat
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at the Lantern, always knew
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the Specials.
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He still used the expression
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"nicotine fit" when he wanted
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a cigarette and kept smoking
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even after his heart surgery.
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Used to tell
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me each morning it
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was going to be
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a great day: "Wayne,
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today's going to be a great day!"
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Stan
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I just saw you yesterday.
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I never knew your last
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name. You didn't show up
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for work this morning, and
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when you didn't
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come in they sent
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the police to your apartment
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where you lived alone.
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They say everyone dies
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alone, but I think some
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more than others.
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I hope yours
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wasn't so much so.
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Forever
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The NPR reporter, gesturing to the robe
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she left on the chair, the last thing
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she wore before she dressed for work
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that day at the Pentagon,
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says to the professor from Howard,
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teaches English, married twenty-five years,
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it was their anniversary,
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you can't let it stay there forever,
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and I think why not,
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why the fuck not?
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Saturday night, lying on the bed,
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the wind banging the old storm windows
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sounds like someone knocking,
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you giggle start to say
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Come in, but
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I put my hand across your mouth.
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Don't say that, don't.
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