Name Game

By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 31, 2020

 

Name Game

Who am I
Starting young
Christening
Water poured
From a font
Getting all wet
Smells and bells
Like my father
Also Charles
Middle name Edward
On my passport
Never used
Except by Pip
Born Maria Louisa
Better known as Pippy
Calls me Little CE
Can't you see
And I Looooiiise
A sister twister
Forming the letters
When a child
No say in the matter
Never liked my name
Either one actually
Didn’t feel like a Charles
Not like my father
Different than me
Better than Charlie or
Heaven forbid Chuck
Pete the plumber says
What’s up Chuck
Makes my skin crawl
How vulgar and common
Although I felt close
To Prince Charles
Most inept Royal
Always enjoyed our
Weekends at Balmoral
Sipping single malt
Out and about in kilts
My unique Sicilian tartan
What to make of Giuliano
Difficult to pronounce
Impossible to spell
Not like my mother’s clan
Simply Flynn and Nugent
Seemingly more normal
So they thought
Though in fact
Nugent was deNougent
French village actually
Norman Conquest
1066 and all that
Irish lords in castles
Long, long, ago
Before the IRA
Clan on the lam
Ran away to Canada
Quarrymen
Worked their way
To farm in Rockport
Giuliano is Sicilian
They like to remind me
Which is to say
Eye-tal-eee-yen
Originally Spanish
Before that Roman
House of Julian
Last pagan emperor
Seems like a lot to
Lay on a kid
Learning his letters
Spelling our moniker
Lasting a lifetime
Too many vowels
Which just isn’t done
Native son
Being number one
In New England
Land of Cabot and cod
Damn Yankees
Me and Pip
Shooting hoops
Down by the school yard
Oh please
Miss Louise
Do Curly for me
Please, please, please
On your knees
Godfather of soul
For Phil Bleeth
The silly fool
Long in Thailand
Animal Kingdom
We called him
Pheeellle
Do the Watusi
Wah, wah-a Watusi
What's in a name
Such a shame
Who's to blame
Just ain't the same
Playing this game
Really so lame
Hall of fame
Over you babe