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THIS YEAR'S JOSE BIRTHDAY POEM
Oneday hopefully we'll know more of your land than
Inca Cola and ceviche and the cool family
and friends that came to your wedding
but we do know the good time good works cool hand
style you've brought to being friend and neighbor
and crayfish cooker ingenue
as you catbird sit one year younger
than Christ on the cross.
It's awesome to be born on the cuff link of hurricane
season, and to survive one as mainly hero to pigs
and the gents who discovered your alternative treasure
on the banquette of the Brown Derby restaurant.
Remember: when Life lemons, turn to Rico.
Nobody lives forever anymore so please delight
in a baby pool of pisco sours
as a year of sweeter times will surely yet unspool.
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