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Features > > Aisle 9 - the Regular Column
Fusco's at old Cape Cod ( a reality show proposal)
Posted by mamta on Sunday, September 06, 2009 (05:46:14)
Blow by Blow account of Family Vacation.
Fusco's at old Cape Cod ( a reality-show proposal)
Seventeen family members, ages one to eighty-one, in one house from Saturday to Saturday.
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An Apology and New Stuff
Posted by John on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (13:23:10)
I've been terribly remiss in contributing to GotPoetry lately. There's a number of semi-valid excuses but I'll save them for more precarious situations.
I don't write as much and it usually takes the form of short essays or statements though I try to maintain the flow and simplicity of my earlier scribblings. I still strive to be amusing.
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Con Jobs
Posted by mamta on Thursday, January 22, 2009 (04:13:01)
Author has enough of self-help!
There's a wildly popular restaurant in Providence where you (the customer) do most of the work and you (the customer) love it!
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The WeatherMan
Posted by John on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 (02:08:57)
Opinion piece on the Seasons
I hate Winter. Currier & Ives is a leftist plot. Ice is nice only in Tanqueray & Tonic. I can't skate, ski, or snowboard. Why do we live in freakin' Worcester?
I hate Winter in Worcester. It's raining where my daughter lives in Bristol, Rhode Island. It's drizzling on my best friend in Northford, Connecticut. It's an overcast 72 degrees where my aunt in Tampa, Florida retired. Meanwhile, I'm snow -throwing the driveway for the 14th time since daybreak and it's a tad before noon.
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Cars
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 09, 2008 (04:13:43)
A Tale of Transportation Woes
I'm suing my wife under the Massachusetts Lemon & Lime law. I'm hoping for a large “pain & suffering” settlement so I can afford a limo-driver the rest of my damaged-days on this god-forsaken planet because I now Hate ( we'll substitute the word “Prune” for the F-bomb throughout this essay) Prunin' Cars!
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Tidbits from Our Visit to The Big Apple
Posted by mamta on Saturday, October 18, 2008 (16:43:58)
A short travel guide to New York City
1) How Not to Buy a Pocketbook in New York City
Get off the double-decker open-air tourist bus on Canal Street. Be careful you're not beheaded by a traffic light.
Watch a petite Asian woman engage your wife in spirited conversation. Follow them to a side street where the three of you are the only occupants not vertically-challenged.
Catch up with your wife as she is passed off to a petite Asian man with a walkie-talkie who leads you into the basement of a seemingly abandoned building where a room smothered in pocketbooks exists.
Tap your foot nervously as your wife browses the contraband. Notice the petite Asian man has a fingernail on his right thumb the size of a Bowie knife.
Have mixed emotions as your wife decides not to make a purchase. Follow our Alamo hero back up the stairs to a now-locked door. Feel kind of Starsky and Hutch-ish as he waits for the “all clear” on his walkie-talkie. Leave the building at a brisk pace then full gallop.
Catch bus back to luxury hotel. Change underwear.
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Two events that needed to be documented by an objective observer
Posted by mamta on Thursday, July 17, 2008 (05:06:35)
I was privileged in early May then early July to bear witness to the following events. The two essays you are about to read are mostly true.
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Merry Month of May
Posted by John on Saturday, May 03, 2008 (01:31:53)
A look back at the Muse
I keep copies of my old poems in a binder next to my old albums. Once in a blue moon, I'll put “Surf's Up” on the turnstile and look back on the moldy muse. I shake my head a lot and urge myself to freshen them up someday.
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Sitting Down
Posted by John on Friday, March 21, 2008 (14:46:46)
I've been writing personal essays more than poetry lately,words spilling out in prose rather than the semi-poetic trickle I'm used to.
Here's 1192 words in a piece called Sitting Down
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Re-visiting Got Poetry
Posted by Tony on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 (20:30:50)
Re-visiting Got Poetry
I received an email from John Powers recently asking about my next Got Poetry column. Since I haven’t contributed a column to GP since October ’06, I took John’s email as a gentle tugging on my creative drawstrings.
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Career Options
Posted by John on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 (21:49:43)
I’ve been in the supermarket business for over 36 years. The hours are long, the pay and benefits good, and the responsibility of supervising over 100 associates, at the very least, daunting.
From time to time, I’ve tried to break away from retailing and make a living writing words. Fresh out of Boston University in 1976 with a B.S. in Journalism, I wrote copy for an ad-agency in downtown Boston for almost 2 years. My most memorable slogan was for a local beauty parlor:
“Richard’s Hair Salon
Your Hair is why We’re Here!”
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Summer Thoughts
Posted by John on Monday, June 05, 2006 (11:00:00)
Haven’t written much lately except for a very personal essay, a slightly off-center children’s story, and a poem after my daughter’s wedding. Hope you enjoy!
The Colonoscopy
or
How I Spent the 1st Wednesday in Spring
When I turned fifty, my family doctor recommended a colonoscopy. I ignored his advice. Turning fifty involved enough cause for introspection without piling it on with an ass-probe.
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March Madness
Posted by John on Monday, March 27, 2006 (00:36:18)
Hi poetry lovers,
I received a letter from a woman in California who read my stuff on GotPoetry.com and sent me a $6 check for a chapbook - My 1st West-coast fan!. I also earned $61 in the open-mike hat at a Worcester venue last week. Who says you can’t make a living writing semi-amusing stuff. Another $88,933 a year and retailing’s just a harrowing memory!
Speaking of memory or lack of, I’m experiencing some technical difficulties lately on some very basic day-to-day activities!
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December Musings
Posted by John on Thursday, January 05, 2006 (09:25:00)
* It’s Christmas day morning. I’m sitting at my desk staring at the mound of presents our children will tear open in a couple of hours.
* Last night, I kept Cyndi company as she wrapped the last gifts and filled the stockings, hoping a helpful husband would receive his Christmas-Eve reward:
Lovemaking After 22 Years
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"Autumn musings or Walking down the Whine aisle"
Posted by John on Saturday, September 10, 2005 (22:41:27)
* How you doin;
* We just moved our daughter Sami back to college, the 4th daughter we’re financing through a higher education. I could live longer than Moses and still have the monthly parents-loan bill forwarded to Mount Sinai:
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Reflections in May
Posted by John on Saturday, May 21, 2005 (04:34:48)
* How ya doin’
* The Fusco family has been operating at full throttle lately with our twin daughters Amanda and Heather planning October ‘05 and May ‘06 weddings respectively. They dragged my ass to the Mall last week under the pretense of looking at their wedding rings:
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"My Dad, March, and a Shameless Plug"?
Posted by John on Saturday, March 12, 2005 (00:46:23)
* My Dad’s in the hospital with advanced heart and kidney disease. We’ve always had a slightly "strained"? relationship that led to a bunch of "therapy"? poems when I was younger:
Two Joe’s
Dad finally had that heart attack that’s
been waiting to happen.
We watched him sleeping in ICU
So uncharacteristically fragile.
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"Baby Talk, etc."
Posted by John on Sunday, February 13, 2005 (17:33:28)
* Hey, since my last column, I’ve become a grandfather! Not to go emotionally overboard, but it’s the best freakin’ gig in the whole world. Here’s the deal:
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* There's no place like 'poems' for the Holidays
Posted by John on Monday, December 27, 2004 (15:27:05)
* Haven't had a creative thought since my company was swallowed up by the Big-Boys the day after Thanksgiving.
* However, I do have a swatch of traditional Holiday poems that will make you feel all Andy-Williams' like:
Just Before Pasta
We were all gathered ‘round the table,
Our world bright with small talk and joy.
When an uncle on your side had to dwell on the past,
So an uncle of mine sealed the future.
And like Italian Christmas tree lights,
The rest of us just sat quiet and flickered.
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"God & other important stuff"
Posted by John on Sunday, November 07, 2004 (15:34:45)
*I'm writing this column on Halloween night just before we take the boys trick-or-treating. Sometimes, kids say the damndest or even 'damnable? things:
"Demonic Spelling Bee"
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"Sickness, Sex, & Sentiment"
Posted by Tony on Monday, October 11, 2004 (18:47:45)
*It's been a struggle lately. Woke up in the middle of the night with the chills & a 104-degree temperature. Called my doctor who said, 'Joe, sounds like you've got a bad case of 'Barry Manilow' fever:
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How We Spent Our Summer Vacation
Posted by John on Sunday, September 05, 2004 (21:19:57)
* Bard of Aisle 9 (III)
How We Spent Our Summer Vacation
* We bought a pool. Now, my resume includes husband, father, store manager, poet, washed-up athlete and
'The Cabana Man?
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Bard of Aisle 9 (II)
Posted by John on Friday, August 13, 2004 (17:46:38)
* How ya' doin'
* My name is Joe Fusco Jr. and this is my 2nd stab at this column. Hope the first was just a flesh wound.
* Speaking of violence, Worcester is a tough town and sometimes a poets gots to do what a poet gots to do.
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Aisle 9: How ya doin'
Posted by John on Friday, July 23, 2004 (07:00:00)
*My name is Joe Fusco Jr. and this is my first column. I just turned 50 and, like most significant events in my life, I wrote a poem about it.
Birthday Presents
For her 40th birthday, my sister-in-law plans to run
the Boston Marathon. She's bought $99 white running sneakers
and three bags of Florida oranges. She plans to be the first 40-
year-old woman from New Hampshire to wear a cape while
running the 26 miles.
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Poems from a 49-year-old Supermarket Store Manager
Posted by John on Monday, January 19, 2004 (06:48:19)
I Think
* I think I'm the oldest person in this coffee-house.
No, wait a minute, maybe that guy with the long,
flowing white hair & beard is older-
Let's check his driver?s license.
No, he just looks older.
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