Today's DJ reports on LACBA's Outstanding Jurist Award presented to PJ Gilbert last week in LACBA installs new officers, honors Gilbert, Kuehl; Margaret Stevens takes the reins after tough year. The article does not mention how, when accepting his award in the music center, he delighted the crowd with Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 'bathroom jokes,' and then cruelly teased the audience by (following his wife's advice and) refusing to read a poem he had written about Verdi and Guiseppina Strepponi. If you ducked out of the event before the midnight after-party, then you left unsatisfyingly tantalized about the poem. Suffer no longer! For your edification and amusement...
Guiseppina
Strepponi,
Loved Verdi and
spumoni,
Was his lover, not a
crony,
His muse, his rigatoni,
She, Verdi's love, his
love only,
A love that's true, not
phony,
They an island, not
Coney,
They, ham and cheese,
not baloney.
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