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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Sunday, July 17, 2016

First Two Lines Are From F. Scott Fitzgerald ... Then Comes Me

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America is the story
of the moon that never rose

America is the story
of the Emperor without clothes
But with 1001 talking heads
and each one, certain that he knows
Why we aren't better,
articulating ever letter
One repeats,  the next is repeatier
sounding authoritative:
that is their metier
as they seduce
your brain
through
the media
  
Unspoken are the words
OH HECK!
then they receive
  a handsome check

 Seemingly intelligent
verbal pecks
segue to 1001
handsome checks


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Footnote
in a letter to  Marya Mannes. 

I wrote the rest while agonizing
a sleepless Mrs. CarPeo.

The next Fitzgerald page is  here.
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