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Neighborhood Legends and Other Poems.


Neighborhood Legends And Other Poems

Paul Homer

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Paul Homer is a successful Chicago Lawyer who has been practicing law for over fifty years. In 2002, at the age of seventy-nine, he wrote his first poems. Now just two years later, Paul has created enough verse to fill the pages of this lawyer-poets' debut collection--Neighborhood Legends And Other Poems. He's a Poet?: He says he is a poet? Indefensible!/That jowly jowl·y  
adj. jowl·i·er, jowl·i·est
Having heavy or sagging jowls.



jowli·ness n.

Adj. 1.
, trapezoidal grandfather,/snow capped like Mt. Rainier,/who cannot hear, has a dangerous totter/and worst, is sometimes comprehensive./Where has he written of the soul's emetic/bringing up shards and bits that are poetic/from a final psychiatric session?/Where is angst, ennui, or sexual repression?/As for pain, engine of the true poetic strain,/he confines it to the caboose,/the last car on the train./But the penultimate pe·nul·ti·mate  
adj.
1. Next to last.

2. Linguistics Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress.

n.
The next to the last.
 indictment of his crime/is that he insists on using rhyme.
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