It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Once It Was..

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Read the story in today's Art Daily
Once it was in Jewish hands
But it wasn't like owning a jalopy
They owned the original painting
As opposed to this hand held copy

Then Germany demanded distinction
With Hitler crying out for racial extinction

Not hung from trees like magnolias in the south
But gassed en masse for possession of a mouth

Yet less than ten percent of all who died:
World War II killed  60 million  world-wide

Therefore the holocaust curse
Could have been worse.

Post-war reunified Germany said  
Our horrible history:
Let's just hurl it
But lo and behold:
Along came the Son of Gurlitt.

The father was hand-picked by Hitler's posse
To collect stolen Jewish art, degenerate or glossy

Little Cornelius loved what his Daddy did do
Inheriting from the Papa what rightly
Belonged to a Jew

But every war (virtually) ends
And Hitler's offspring
Had to make amends

Yet little Cornelius loved his art
Living in dirt but keeping it
Close to his heart

No longer little in 2012
Into his hoard of ill-gotten art
German authorities did delve

For a full year they were hush hush
While the sun got sunny
The moon got moony

Based on a true story
(except where we have to lie)
MONUMENTS MEN was Berlin-filmed
And Cornelius Gurlitt privately proclaimed
God Bless George Clooney

One full year of hush hush–
You know what I mean–
The busted Gurlitt was not news
Until 2013

God Bless international media–
They are so opposite of "groovy"–
MONUMENTS MEN proved to be
One God-awful movie



Ignoring the Gurlitt factor...
Then to his lawyer, George got married!
Distracting from  "monumental heroes" who–
To their own homes–stolen Jew-owned
art they illegally carried.

But other German Jew-owned art
Is where  anyone can see 'em
All you gotta do is go to
Any world-famous Art Museum

Yes we need a saner world
Not one of mega-paranoid size–
Believe in every Museum's innocence:
It is madness to think otherwise.

Sometimes ignorance can be bliss
Sometimes it can be a death-kiss.

 
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Footnotes
ONCE IT WAS... is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

The next Gurlitt page [albeit footnote only] is  here.
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