Neal Spitzer: Artist
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Real Estate

Children all grown and gone,
widower Bob, in the house with the beige
brick facade down the block,
ever willing to aid the lost,
when visited by Aliens hands
each hairless Alien a large navel orange saying
if they’d swallow the orange in one gulp,
they too would grow a navel,
become look-a-likes with the bald guys
on our street, and be free to emigrate from
wherever they were from to here.

Keen to sell up
and move back to the mountains,
Bob hopes helping them to relocate,
these guys would buy.

But Bob didn’t count on this bunch
being of a lactose base and narrow throated.
Mouthing the orange curdles their heads off
and deflates their bodies, leaving Bob
with awkward bundles across his lawn.

That was more than a month ago and now,
stuck with an Alien craft in Bob’s backyard,
pool and barbeque unavailable,
Nadira, Bob’s broker, appears increasingly
despondent, one buyer lost
to a sluggish market and the property
bestraddled by an attractive nuisance.

But we all know Bob
and he can stay as long as he needs to,
though we need to know,
Is the Alien craft safe for our children to play on?

v.27
2004-08, 12, 15
b16 p27

When my father

Here I stand

Postcard 1943

Smiles at mountains

Saving the roses

Guy time

Real Estate

Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints

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