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ISSUE #11 - MAY 2009
poetry
Freddie Prinz Junior

That iconic 1970's television show titled "Stanford and sons" main star actor Freddie Prinz took his own life prematurely way before his own (christened with the same name affixed with the appellation junior) carved a niche (on the silver screen) his father no doubt would be proud!

The aura, charisma, dogma, karma and persona of the senior manifested thru the male heir to prove his tenacious mettle and analogous to taking on a new challenge and/or a making a fresh start thru a promising life cut short, which sacrifice left incomplete a potential legacy now taken up by the torch bearer of said male factor!

Talent traversed thru the genetic code and bore fruit in the progeny providing that the spirit of the father vicariously fills the corporeal essence of a boy (whose longevity now already eclipsed that of the dad), and I bet probably feels haunted by the legend of an outsize Hispanic paternal personality!

Ambition, dedication, gumption, et cetera allowed, enabled and provided fortitude to witness dogged success against being compared to a mythic celebrity who ironically gained Pyrrhic posthumous fame and fortune transmitted chromosomally to an offspring with an equal amount of je ne sais quois renown!

Recognition came with the price tag per the untimely (albeit self induced) death at the seminal apex of he who bore forth the prodigal prodigy, whose early life (devoid of a father figure) nonetheless received tender loving care in tandem with vital vim and vigor of a young man who bucked the odds (sans being other than an ole American Caucasian) and blazed a trail for subsequent generations from any walks of existence to experience their person shone klieg lights!

A hunch that no matter that the senior senor dealt with cultural bias and maybe even racial prejudice, he bore the brunt like the Atlas of the World early comprehensive edition thru a career that sent world wide popularity to the stratosphere (as if propelled by some powerful spacecraft housed at NASA Headquarters)!

Junior senor followed the figurative and literal footsteps and won accolades with that prince a pull jazzy pizzazz bad as you can be thespian supreme reel quality panache!

Matthew Harris is a resident of Narberth, PA. He can be contacted at love2contra [at] aol.com.

 

 
 
 


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