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Poetic Form: Dramatic Monologue
Inspired: 2024 July 25
Tom Hanks Once Waited on Cher When He Worked as a Hotel Bellhop | Us Weekly (usmagazine.com)
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/tom-hanks-once-waited-on-cher-when-he-worked-as-a-hotel-bellhop/
instrumentalists mind, I rested thought
employing it, only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was a man of varied pranks
one done on me, he scored, long ere acting repoire
ignorant to his scheme, concluding I'm redeemed
poem he took was mine he gave it to some slime
First slime look slides away, rights to print on display
check at seventies rates, in my hands with the dates
paper signed check now cashed--ten scores, swan dive a
SPLASH (i.e. me'swan song to bellhoppin' Tommy!)
Not an actor yet but a fellow employee
his instruments lack tune, methinks he acts too soon
treasure chests, pirate ships, but today banking trips,
sharp move long-term needy, money a bit noisy
cash smash wallets--purses, but not the dead men curses.
Tom was a man of opportunity, a year older than me, who had hutzpah, but I cannot be like him, which the above phrase describes. When Ron Howard of Happy Days/Opie, was with us for a while--not right then--but Splash, Apollo 13, The Da Vinci ... I would never annoy him and ask him about his conscience--ever. My poem Tom submitted with my Signature of Approval was entitled: "The Collection Plate" and it leaned on laughter. Nothing risque or vulgar--Pastor, Priest, and Rabbi--especially men of the cloth--the magazine that wanted my poem for an upcoming issue, was; "Hustler" late 70s issue unsure of the year, and my title may have to accommodate their subscriber's eyes, but maintain dignity and quality of my poem which I reviewed before release. To the good old days Tom, a man who made dreams come true for me ... and you didn't do too bad yourself ... and btw, it's 1976 because I gave you Cher, and Ron Howard, Cindy Williams ...
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