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***BIO*** John Rocco lives in Queens, NYC.  He wrote a novel called FUR (2005, Published in Heaven Books).
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The Duke
by John Rocco
THE DUKE OF NEW YORK
is dead
the first thing I thought when I heard
Isaac Hayes was dead. 
He will always be the DUKE to me
for the music that pushed
John Shaft through Times Square
theater lights popping
for the sex machine to all the chicks.
Isaac Hayes was Black Moses
crucified in soul
and the DUKE in
Escape from New York.
I should know.
I played Donald Pleasance
Michael Myers hunter
with my broken heart
President of the U.S.
shot down on Air Force One
over the world’s largest
maximum security prison,
Manhattan.  The Duke
has me as a hostage and
he is planning the greatest
prison break in history.
Only Snake Plissken
one-eyed
stands in his way.
Snake flew into the prison
on a glider and landed
on the highest point downtown,
the Towers.
Sept. 2008
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