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t one of the greatest things in the world was my father when he couldn t breathe everything jiggled and shook turned read and teared up in that moment he was laughing so hard he was halfway outta his seat what i said was if you re lipshitz then my ass talks sorry easily an all time favorite memory i d never seen someone lose it so badly from that day on all i wanted to do was make his belly shake but recently all he wanted to do was kiss the toddler and newborn cheeks of his granddaughters that and get the hell outta rehab and the hospital and get back on home to mom 60 years they were married she was 18 he was 21 all those years together i don t know how you did it all those holidays cruises meals fights illnesses quiet moments misunderstandings and joys i love you mom and for the longest time that simple phrase was one of the hardest things for him to say myron had a world famous smile but man was he aloof stoic and aloof whenever my parents dropped me off at the airport i d say i love you and practically had to force him to say it back to me it was so hard for him to say his eyes would well up when he finally relented but those watery eyes they meant everything to me but then all of that changed when my parents rescued that loud little long hair chihuahua riley dad would be all i love you riley and how s my sweet baby boy and mushy riley this and are you serious riley that linda and i would look at each other like what the heck is happening right now where was all of that while we were growing up riley annoyingly barks at the slightest movement but there s no denying that that dog opened up my father s world and helped him better express himself my mom too so to my little brother riley i am grateful what my dad lacked in words of affection he made up for in gestures both grand unassuming every year for my birthday he d take off work and take me and sometimes mom into the city to places like the natural history museum moma the met the guggenheim the intrepid anything monumental enough to launch me properly into the next year of becoming he taught me how to draw saturn so the rings looked like they were spinning he taught me how to play chess how to use chopsticks and how to pull dandelions from the grass with a screwdriver in 1986 he taught me the edge of your seat thrill of rooting for a winning baseball team and in 1990 he taught me that if you take your son to the douglaston movie theatre to see the hunt for red october you could watch all 2 hours and 15 minutes of it then go into the bathroom and hang out just long enough to be able to sneak into the next showing of major league just as it was about to begin like i said he was crafty that myron he was always calculating something the summer after my junior year of college i was staying with my parents before i had to be at a job in the north georgia hills and instead of me just taking a flight dad had the idea to drive me from boca raton all the way up to atlanta he gave us the gift of one of those classic father and son road movies over the tires and miles we talked about our lives and all the feel good things you d expect from such a box office hit time to hash things out and heal we stopped for the night in macon georgia and he got me a beer i ordered chicken romano had one of the best meals of my life and then we went back to the hotel room to watch michael jordan win his 6th nba title absolute perfection the next day he dropped me off i said i love you and then he turned the car around and drove the long road south all way back home alone i still have your old dandelion pulling screwdriver dad i still have a copy of our lavatory aviator tax return and in my head i still have the sound of the last thing you would ever say to me i love you too 03 03 24 by paul siegell at 11 30 pm 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday february 08 2024 eulogy for linda siegell kopp 6 16 72 1 31 24 video courtesy of thomas aebisher 02 08 24 good morning on behalf of my parents elaine myron my sister alisa and everyone s handsome hero linda s dear husband michael i thank you all for making the journey to be here with us today to celebrate my sister s life and our collective love for her it is remarkable yet not surprising how packed this room is now i m going to ask for a little audience participation if you would please indulge me for a moment when i say linda you say love linda love linda love when i say up a you say bove up a bove up a bove when i say she s the you say best she s the best she s the best when i say chickie you say yes chickie yes chickie yes yes good job everybody thank you you didn t see that coming did you i figured if we re gonna spend the day crying our eyes out there might as well be a song about it she was always singing you know you d be having a conversation with her and she d hear the reference of a lyric in what you were saying and she d just start singing the song for fun because it made her happy i always loved that about her damn straight right never failed ok on the exact same day that david bowie s the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars was released into the world friday june 16 1972 a little girl was born at flowers fifth avenue hospital in manhattan she was just 5 lbs 3 oz and allergic to milk and the stars looked very different that day knock knock knock knock knock a few days later that little girl went home to bayside queens with elaine and myron siegell and they named her linda pam linda after elaine s grandmother lena perez and pam after elaine s aunt pauline rubin linda was immediately scooped up by an older sister alisa and myron began forming a bond with linda that can easily be described as daddy s little girl say okayyy say okayyy linda would cry whenever she wanted something say okayyy as if he could resist five years after linda i was born surprise the family had moved to roslyn long island and as i grew from playing with legos on the floor to playing legend of zelda on nintendo the most unusual sounds began to seep through the wall that separated my bedroom from linda s the smiths morrisey erasure depeche mode the cure siouxsie and the banshees and a whole howling galaxy of others i was fascinated i d go into her room and find linda lying on her bed completely zoning out just staring at the ceiling absorbing song after song searching for their meanings taking space for herself and not doing her homework whenever one of us needed the other instead of calling out their names we would knock on the wall so as not to disturb the house knock knock knock knock knock and the other would be there in seconds until she left for suny oneonta and the kind likes of donna wanna and tom linda was my best friend growing up talking for hours telling stories about herricks high school and sprout lake and t y summer camp we d listen to the bands that michael robinson turned her onto and when it was time to clear the table and clean the kitchen after dinner a dinner mind you a dinner she most likely ate with one hand holding her fork while putting her food in her mouth with the other we d sing those songs to help make our chores less tedious she always made it a party knock knock knock knock knock when she was younger linda used to light matches in the basement of our house mesmerized by the danger and the glow she loved the smell of smoke and matches she definitely got busted a few times but no matter how hard she tried she never once set the house on fire let it be entered into the historical record linda once asked in all seriousness what s grandpa ben s first name you know when you were a kid and you got those stickers that were 3d and kinda squishy there was that bump to them when linda was in first grade she had to color in some shapes for an assignment and when she handed in her paper her teacher asked linda why is there dried elmer s glue all over your shapes little linda in her absolute cutest said because i wanted to make them puffy linda was a schemer mischievous and sparkling she came into my room one day with her hairspray hair her high school report card and a black pen she had just transformed the f of a failing grade into a b and was about to forge our mother s signature but wanted me to make sure everything looked ok first linda was out standing at forging our mother s signature and she absolutely did it more than once sorry mom she took me to my first concert june 3 1988 depeche mode at jones beach amphitheater i was 10 my goodness she took me to see they might be giants and even les miz on broadway starring none other than tammy jacobs as cosette the event and spectacle of a show was something linda never wanted to miss and i learned from the best when i moved from pittsburgh to orlando without a job the week before 9 11 she made a call and got me an interview at cruise s only applying coupons to bookings i quickly became the employee of the month and was gifted a free cruise but none of my friends could go with me so i had no choice but to take my mom suuuper romantic i wound up getting sun poisoning but my family then spent the next 20 years booking cruise after cruise after cruise linda was always looking out for us pointing us all in adventurous directions as many here can attest if linda ever loved you at herricks at camp college work wherever if your spark and linda s ever truly found each other she d set you apart you d both glow brighter and she d stay in touch with you for the rest of her life christina oliveros heather schiffer marcy pikus mike silver jeff tabachnick jean jean legends the lot of you that so many of you traveled to see her these past few years meant so much to her and to michael and to my parents and to me michael my sister became who she was always meant to be when she met you you gave her the space and the love to be her true self and we all took notice what you did for linda the first 10 years and what you did for linda these last six should not and will not be forgotten i thank you i love you we thank you we love you and i m sorry gorgeous and handsome didn t have more time with each other i miss my sister i miss the bubbly happy go lucky sister i had before she was ever diagnosed i miss the always positive warrior sister who showed us all how to face down the worst possible challenge with grace and strength and humor and love and now today i m trying i m trying real hard to take comfort in the idea that whenever i need her all i need to do is knock x x x xx by paul siegell at 11 30 pm 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 04 2024 backstage at the submission apparition exhibition 2023 2 poetry acceptances 9 rejections received 1 new boss jeff oaks sadly passed away 1 baby girl born 2022 6 poetry acceptances 30 rejections received 4 wordplay ground videos created 2021 5 poetry acceptances 24 rejections received 1 chapbook published named montgomery county poet laureate 2020 1 poetry acceptance 3 rejections received 1 new boss 1 house bought 1 car leased 1 negative covid test 1 baby girl born 2019 5 poetry acceptances 34 rejections received 1 work promotion well i got engaged planned a wedding and done got married 2018 3 poetry acceptances 1 fiction acceptance 43 rejections received 1 work promotion 1 pushcart nomination 2017 10 acceptances 50 rejections received 1 book accepted 2016 11 acceptances 53 rejections received 2015 12 acceptances 88 54 34 rejections received 2014 9 acceptances 31 rejections received 2013 12 acceptances 37 rejections received 2012 12 acceptances 39 rejections received 2011 16 acceptances 37 rejections received 2010 22 acceptances 52 rejections received 2009 23 acceptances 51 rejections received 1 book accepted 2008 25 acceptances 73 rejections received 1 book accepted 2007 17 acceptances 71 rejections received 1 book accepted 2006 9 acceptances 28 rejections received by paul siegell at 3 46 pm 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 27 2023 hi do you like poems about friends family and animals i wrote a few and heavy feather review was kind enough to publish them thank you sender disliker pricks singer illegitimate light at legitimately midnight by paul siegell at 11 29 am 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 11 2023 many thanks to arts cultural council of bucks county for pairing my poem glitter bomber with david lennard s missing my friend for today s 30 days of inspiration perfection by paul siegell at 11 11 am 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 12 2023 backstage at the submission apparition exhibition 2022 6 poetry acceptances 30 rejections received 4 wordplay ground videos created 2021 5 poetry acceptances 24 rejections received 1 chapbook published named montgomery county poet laureate 2020 1 poetry acceptance 3 rejections received 1 new boss 1 house bought 1 car leased 1 negative covid test 1 baby girl born 2019 5 poetry acceptances 34 rejections received 1 work promotion well i got engaged planned a wedding and done got married 2018 3 poetry acceptances 1 fiction acceptance 43 rejections received 1 work promotion 1 pushcart nomination 2017 10 acceptances 50 rejections received 1 book accepted 2016 11 acceptances 53 rejections received 2015 12 acceptances 88 54 34 rejections received 2014 9 acceptances 31 rejections received 2013 12 acceptances 37 rejections received 2012 12 acceptances 39 rejections received 2011 16 acceptances 37 rejections received 2010 22 acceptances 52 rejections received 2009 23 acceptances 51 rejections received 1 book accepted 2008 25 acceptances 73 rejections received 1 book accepted 2007 17 acceptances 71 rejections received 1 book accepted 2006 9 acceptances 28 rejections received by paul siegell at 2 34 pm 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 31 2022 5 new poems in otoliths 67 beginner charger x outer for jen strauss and erin cloud gamer green mushroom demystifier secret chamber found in ancient pyramid many thanks to editor mark young by paul siegell at 11 08 am 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 13 2022 from the archives big time in the american poetry review 2008 appeared in the july august 2008 issue of apr winner of the goodreads poetry contest may 2010 click to enlarge by paul siegell at 9 59 am 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 28 2022 an announcer s announcement announcing the publication of a new poem announcer ️ many thanks to peter carlaftes and kat georges for including my work in the incredible maintenant 16 by paul siegell at 1 00 pm 0 wisecracks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 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