Bob Genevro Poems

'We now know why you've been having so much trouble'
a neurologist said over the phone.
'Your MRI shows you have
a brain tumor
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'Jeez, ' he said. 'I'm sorry
to hear about your brain tumor.
I hope you're gonna be OK.
My wife's first cousin's husband's sister's son
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at Nativity School
boys reek of Butch Wax and Vitalis.
White arrow shirts and salt n pepper corduroys
stiffen like cardboard from laundry starch.
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1.
mighty weight lifters get
disqualified from painful
urinary infections
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Adams Adams Harrison Harrison Roosevelt Roosevelt Bush Bush

Ford Polk Pierce Grant Taft Hayes Bush Bush
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Robert Bishop (1918-2009)
was born in Hibbing, Minnesota.

He was a devoted husband to Jane
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1.
TRUE LOVE

The most popular tulips
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Our Art Teacher Mrs. Nickels
bites her lower lip
with her Bucky Beaver teeth.
She slides yellow pencils
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in the Dodge Center showroom
they perch on mahogany tables
flick their Marlboro ashes on their 3-piece navy-blue suits
stare with bloodshot eyes
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I.
You abandoned your marriage cottage
decorated with wallpaper of wilted roses.
Your South African diamond ring now
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