Descriptors:
ALPS Veteran (joined 1984)
Cuban by Birth (can mambo)
Buffalonian by Choice (likes sleet & snow)
Ambidextrous tennis Player (awful to mediocre)
Linguist (plays the allophone)
Translator (though not a traitor)
New York Yankees Fan (since 1947)
University Professor (SUNY Buffalo)
Poet (aspires to word-jazz)

Main works:
FOREIGNER'S NOTEBOOK (Shuffaloff Press 1993)
FILM BLANC (Meow Press 1996)

DEFECTIVE HYMN

i may be someone you may want to kiss or miss or even hiss
in representing the highest type of breed or greed

but i bet you don't know that hired as a "desperate truthteller" 
a zombie may either walk or balk

the copy monster was going to be focusing on growing concerns or
perhaps only on growing ferns if we were lucky 
unluckily we were not lucky and today the choice for eyes is 
limited to weary, teary and bleary

so then let's go on with our favorite part, the intermezzo:

up until now 
now has been like until 
up has been like now 
and like has been like itself

notice that the intellectual snare has not succeeded 
and you still have to prepare for something called 
a sacramental fest

sure but...

that is most likely a big but 
it may go well with the big ifs