My mother didn’t believe in nicknames
after all we were named after saints
Saints: Joseph, Robert, Judith, Jerome
or were we? Charlene, Sally, Diana.
In order to fit-in we changed our names
Joe, Bob, Judy, Jerry, Charlie, Di, Sal.
We could tell how old we were
when we met people by the name they called out
Dolores - Dee Dee, Charles – Chuck,
but Jess was always Jess
sort of named after my father whose name was Jesus…
go figure, Jess didn't need a nickname.
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