>> This makes you look like death warmed over Might get you sympathy scaring up change on a street corner Might yield a nomination as best supporting actor Won’t get you sex though This makes you look like Marlon Brando Unfortunately late in his career We’re talking the role he played like a fat Truman Capote What’s the diff? You’d have enough money to buy sex Or an island This makes you look like St. Sebastian I’d get those arrow wounds looked at This makes you look like the Coney Island Ferry How the hell did you get that effect? This makes you look like the Hubble Telescope Snap a distant galaxy for me This makes you look like an animated feature Why you picked the receding chin I’ll never know This makes you look like a Flying Dutchman It’s a little known fact that one in 50,000 Dutchmen are born with wings And one in ten of those Grows into a workable pair The ones that don’t have to be Surgically removed, otherwise they fester This makes you look like you haven’t a clue Adding the deerstalker hat doesn’t change the impression This makes you look like a mirror My guess? It’ll make you irresistible This makes you look like nobody’s business I doubt that’ll have the same effect This makes you look twice before crossing A safe look but far from bold
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Rodolfo Franco is an anthropologist by formation, graphic designer by profession, and poet by vocation, also with the pretension to become a magician. He was born in Brazil but has lived in Spain since 1989, where he published, among other things, the visual poetry books 22 Corazones and Album de Cromos and co-edited the magazine Delta Nueve. He collaborated with several other magazines, collective books, catalogs, websites, exhibitions, encounters and festivals, meetings and conspirations. He has participated in over 300 artistic events and publications across fourteen countries. As a poet, he works on several fronts: classical, haiku, concrete, visual, and performance. He is also a writer of songs and practices ludolinguistic procedures with palindromes and anagrams. He is also a member of the band, Comando Macondo, and a cultural agitator.
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