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 About This Author 
A changeling spirit,  
constantly evolving,  
revolving around an inner core,  
spinning forth legend and lore,  
stories and lives  
as I come to grips  
with who and what I am,  
have been and may be.  
I am a phoenix: 
rising ever above and beyond!
  
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	 Eulogy for Vincenzo Ricardo Vincenzo Ricardo lived all alone 
Diabetic, and blind—left all on his own. 
 
For a year, no one saw him- 
For a year no one cared 
So a man sat dead,  
while his TV blared. 
Electric unpaid,  
but the lights were still on- 
Yet Vinnie Ricardo  
was long, long gone. 
The mail piled up- 
No one saw him go out- 
Tho’ they were used to seeing him 
Wandering about. 
As the tree in the forest fell 
With no one to hear… 
So Vinnie sat dead 
For over a year. 
Out of sight, out of mind, 
As the days moved forward 
Just a crabby old man  
Whom the neighbors ignored. 
But they all knew he needed 
Help reading his mail  
And for trips to the bank 
In this Long Island dale. 
He was just an old man 
Who needed a friend, 
No one deserves 
This lonely an end. 
 
They all were aware-- 
But they just didn’t care. 
 
 
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