"Happy Birthday, Geoffrey G. O’Brien!" [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]

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May 10, 2013

"Happy Birthday, Geoffrey G. O’Brien!" [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]

GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN  (5/10)

Geoffrey G
lobotomized me
—O’Brien is making the rounds—
it’s just like a C
or a jamboree
—the pizza, the pizza, the pounds—

His Pegassus grimaces
now leave the premises
—particle, particle, noun—
His medical nemesis
purges the phlegm in his
modern responses to sound

Oh, his modern responses to sound!
Oh wow he’s not fucking around!

On Friday and Monday
he tore up the runway
complete with tiara and gown!

On Friday and Wednesday
he phoned up his sensei,
a man of respect and renown!

On Thursday and Saturday
met with the Latter Day
Saints who had nowhere to be,—

though they knock on the door,
he has turned forty-four:
O-B-G-Y-N • G-G-O-B!

☎

Posted by Anthony Madrid on May 10, 2013 at 06:04 AM in Birthday Poems | Permalink

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