Thread by @book_working

don't think I know
what I'm doing
who I am reaching
who scorns me?
when all alone
in my outcast state
and look upon myself
and curse my fate

I have had many pets
a duck, a chicken, a gecko
a snake, a rabbit, a guinea pig
a dog, a cat, a fish, and a gerbil

so many practical jokes played
on me
once my brother Todd
placed an egg
into Henrietta's nest
Her first egg!
I shouted
everyone nodded

My other claim to fame
became known as a " fit-model"
because I'm am 6'1, 170
but the costume I was fitting
was for Vin Diesel
the Chronicl

My body is so strange
a bus once passed by me
in Manahattan
depicting me as trapeze artist
in a green spandex leotard
freaky

picking a favorite brother
(out of seven)
is hard
but I have only one baby brother
so John definitely
has special in my heart

he has three beautiful daughters
Laura, Claire, and Eleanor
raised them with his wife Carol
I went to his wedding
reception in Lincoln Park

My brother Chris married Regina
on Balboa island off
Newport Beach OC
they have two children
Christian and Alana
but always broke

Geoff and Maria
Eloped to Paris
so I'm not really sure if
they held a wedding
but their kids
Thomas and Elsa
are thriving in Europe

This next chapter is very dark
I am moving from weddings
to funerals
skip ahead, cause I don't think
it will be pretty
when my sister Tina

My sister Tina was diagnosed with leukemia
when she was 33
they checked the whole family
to find a bone marrow match
they found a match
me

I spent 3 months at Sloan-Kettering
waiting for her to come out of her coma
with my and dad
but my marrow was never harvested
she died at 35

but Kathy's death shocked the whole family
she had just flown from Bahrain
to attend my mother's 90th birthday party
she was my mom's BFF

but Mom died 9 days before
that party
so instead of that party
we carried a coffin
Kathy died 12 days later

it is unusual for stand-in
to be interviewed for a job
in Hollywood
but okay, so I went
That 70s Show
needed a stand-in
I was so hoping
it

to stand in for Ashton
but that position was filled
they offered me the job
as Steven Hyde's stand-in
instead
so I tried it out
for a few

I did grow to love the whole cast
Mila, Kelso, Topher, Laura, Danny, Kurtwood
Debra Jo, Tanya, Don
but especially
Lisa, and Tommy Chong

but it was just three days per week
so I couldn't make ends meet
and decided to move on
after two seasons
but I still love them all

when my sister Kathy
saw our brother Todd in his coffin
she said "he never looked better"

but when I was 22
I moved back home 2 Greece
after I graduated college
the us radio station
got me my first speaking part
(on a miniseries)

it was called
The First Olympics:1894
I played Lermusiaux
a French participant
they asked me
why I wore white gloves

" Because I run before the King"
you try pulling that off with a French accent
My degree in acting paid off
ofcourse I lost the gold medal

I had to pretend to run slower
Than Alex Hyde White
the son of Alfred
Sean Connery's son Jason and lots
of other Hollywood kids
Hunt Block?

if you want to become
a Broadway star
you better know how to dance
I studied dance in New York
Luigi...still in my bones
taught it in Athens

tomorrow
and tomorrow
and tomorrow
creeps in this petty pace
to the last syllable of recorded time
and all our yesterday's

have lighted fools the way
to dusty death
out!
out brief candle
life is but a walking shadow
a mere player
who struts and frets
his time

upon the stage and then is heard no more
As you can imagine,
I once played MacBeth
but those words
stayed with me

it is a tale
told by an idiot
full of sound and fury
signifying
nothing
sound familiar?

so on the set of that mini-series
I was approached by Hunt Block's
personal manager
he had discovered John Travolta
and John Erik Hexum
so

when he handed me
his phone number to his suite at
Grand Bretagne in Syntagma Square
I was taken aback
but i didnt have what it takes
in me

My sister Isabel
is bi-polar
My brother Bill
is schisophremic
without the help of my fellow citizens
I would not have the pleasure
of their

extraordinary company
Our government kept them alive
at critical moments
so now they made it
and boy do we love to laugh a lot together!
now

so the Stillers:
I only worked with Ben once
exactly as funny in person!
his father Jerry
notsomuch
worked on the King of Queens
three times

so when I went to chat with him
on Curb Your Enthusiasm
he shooed me off
like a fly
I respect that actors
on a set
need to stay focused

when I was in high school
I needed a coin to call home
the school had 2 pay phones
but if they weren't home
I couldn't even leave
a message

My neices and nephews
have been texting their parents
since the third grade
a part of me envies that
intimacy
that I never felt existed

after that 70s Show
I moved on to Angel
David Boreanaz is awesome
but stood in for Alexis Denisof
my sister once dated him
but I never told

but the schedule
was so grueling
6am to 6pm on mondays
6pm to 6am on Fridays
I needed help
I turned to crystal to survive

what a gigantic mistake
I turned into the picture
of Dorian Gray
all beautiful on the outside
but ugly as sin
on the inside
I had to stop

So I worked on Rush Hour
directed by Brett Ratner
Jackie Chan was the answer
to a NYT crossword that day
when I showed Jac
the crossword

Mr Chan
laughed and laughed
he asked me if I had anymore copies
to send to his relatives
I didn't love Chris that much
kind of a loudmouth

but compared to Jaime Foxx
he was a sweetie
on the Jaime Foxx show
my bag was scanned
for weapons
I did not want to become
involved

in 6th grade
I was sent to the principal's office
my father was the principal
we spent 20 mins together
he did paperwork the whole time

My stepfather loved
shouting at the television
like anyone would hear him?
Mom just smiled
but that was the beginning
of his descent

imagine our surprise
when the police called
we have your father in custody
for assaulting a Motel 6 desk clerk
who refused to give him keys

once a woman called me
we are with your father
we found him wandering
can you please come pick him up?
how did you get my number??

so many missed opportunities
with my stepfather
before the alsheimers set in
made me feel somewhat indifferent
i became
just like he was

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