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If you’re the kind of person who turns directly to the puzzle page of your local newspaper, it’s likely that you’ve spotted “Celebrity Cipher.” This celebrity-themed cryptogram, syndicated by Universal Uclick, appears six days a week in more than 70 newspapers across the country….
Luís Campos
Poet/humorist Luís Campos was born to write. At the age of 13 he edited, published, and distributed EL Fuego in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This humorous daily included neighborhood/city gossip, funny stories, etc. In 1948, Luís emigrated to the U.S. and eventually settled in Los Angeles, California.
Luís Campos in other media
“Poetry by Luís Campos” Poetry! Compact disc for sale by Luís Campos was released May 31, 1994 on the New Alliance label. Poetry! CD music contains a single disc with 15 spoken word poems. Poems include: Ah, Poets! / Electric Poem In AC Minor / Immigrant / Badlands Rock / Caramba! / Foreign Graffiti / Facial Quality / 14th Street...
TRUE MADE-UP STORY
(’06)
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– Two shepherds saw her –
right away they knew,,,
it was the Virgin Mary.
– Four, maybe five seconds
and, phfffft! She vanished! –
– The shepherds looked at
each other, made the sign
of the cross, & went back
to the village to tell everyone.
– “La Virgen María!
La Virgen María!”
– Said shepherd Juan,
“She didn’t speak,
but I saw tears & sadness…”
– Said shepherd Pedro,
“I thought she spoke to me…
she said,
‘Be good to your flock,,,
animals go to heaven too.'”
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Read Poem/CommentTHE THREE B’S
(’01 – Back in the days when
I owned a house.)
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Black & Decker.
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Read Poem/CommentKISMET MATTERS
(’11)
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– Good!
– Wrote down
Fate’s license plate No.
– Hit & run,
that’s what it was,,,
leaving the scene
of an accident…
– I can give you
a good physical description:
a three-inches-long
middle-finger…
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Read Poem/CommentCONDEMNED
(’13)
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– Sentenced to three months
in the notorious
Mental-Bloc Prison of the Mind –
– The cell measures
two feelings of failure
by one of anxiety,,,
– Brain impulses activate the walls…
positive thoughts expand them,
negative ones confine them.
– I’m attending
a rehabilitation seminar,
on how to avoid future stays
inside my own inner Big House.
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Read Poem/CommentINTERRUPTION
(’13 – ’18)
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– Barking dogs…
a distant ranchera,,,
an intense itch
in precisely the wrong spot…
“We interrupt this nothing-type poem
for an important announcement:
every one on Earth, as we speak,
is playing their part in
‘The History of the World –
The Final Chapter.'”
“Now we return you to your
boring, nothing-type poem.”
– Let’s see,,, where was I?
Yes, of course…
where’s that stupid
Preparation H?
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