Warning To Family, Friends, And Select Haters

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Today 

is 

my Sister's 80th

Birthday.

 

Under 

no circumstances

do I want to

talk 

to anyone

on the phone

today 

because

my tear ducts

would be

in overdrive

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 

🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

 

_________________

__________ 

 

Sorry,

but she would not allow

an image

to be posted here.

Telling me

that

—in the Great Beyond—

she is any age

she wants to be

at any time 

  

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Curvaceous + Apish ... In The Service Of Real Poetry

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ROBERT SERVICE

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Quoting Canadian Pizza

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Paul,

your pizza is ready

 

CANADIAN PIZZA

🍕🍕🍕  

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Quoting Will Rogers

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******* 

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Quoting Mr. D ... And Me

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Weak brain

+

narrow mind

will always leave

you behind

 

© WILLIE DIXON © 

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Hating is easy,

therapy is hard

 

© Oliverio © 

 

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Willie Dixon's

video

may have

deleteable

advert 

 

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Don't Bet Against It ... Despite The Two Links

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❗❗ 

THE ROLLING STONES

once recorded a song

written by

SONNY BONO

❗❗

 

 

But

a flucking

deleteable advert

may intrude 

AND 

for 

the 

lucky

few

who know

how to bet

__________

_____ 

all

I will say 

is  

 

She Said Yeah  

❗❗ 

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Black + White Anxiety ... With Roller Coaster

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© PhotoVerio #1053.5

 

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Two-Sided New York Baseball Blues

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What 

can you say

about a team 

when your

best pitcher

has 

a name 

that rhymes

with 

Hitler?

+

 

A team

that built a rotunda

named for someone

who

never set foot

in

your stadium

? 

❓❓❓ 

 

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________

 

 

© Oliverio ©  

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Inspired By Lynda Oliverio ... In 1972

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© 

________

 ________________

 

The only reason 

I  work is

so 

I can afford 

a psychiatrist

and tell him

how much

I hate 

my job

________________

________

 

©

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO © 

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PhotoVerio #1082: Living Up To His Promise

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"He said I'd get

an appearance fee

for walking through

this crappy photograph"

 

"All he did

was

pay me 

a compliment"

 

 

© Oliverio © 

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Ten + Five ... Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own

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If 

the gas tank

of  your 

imagination

borders on empty,

please skip this page

 

__________________

_________

  

10 days from today,

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

will sing

the title song

+

the featured dancers 

will include

my

Mom + Dad 

 

Those 3 members 

of the

 Class of '71

will toast

the 

post-humous crowd

with

Starbucks Champagne

in deference to 

what

was created

in that year

 

__________________

_________

 

But

5 days from today,

all of the above

[and a gazillion others]

will sing

♎HAPPY BIRTHDAY♎

as my sister

celebrates

#80

 

Ain't Nobody's Business

How I Honor

The Dead   

 

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It Ain't Bragging, If You Can Do It Again

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 I was offered

 significantly

more money

than 

the $20 

I received from

Joan Rivers

BUT

stupidly said 

no 

__________

______

 

Mega-stupidly,

the recipient of

my negativity

turned out to be

Robert Orben

 

__________

______

 

The primary reason

I post this 1980 document

has to do with

my highlighted address:

 

It was the last 

of 3 homes

I owned 

on 

Long Island

but no siblings

or parents

owned 

a share

 

Otherwise

the price of admission

would not have been

quality drugs

or

Tequila

__________

______

 

I was both

a landlord

+ 

a substitute teacher

at that time

but

countless people

were "educated"

by me

in the comfort

of the house

whose address was 

5 Orient Hill

and payment

was most likely

non-denominational

 ______

 ______

   ______ 

One absolute certainty:

a Sound Beach

resident 

named 

"Stevie B'

learned

a bucketful of

God-Knows-What 

at

that location

 

__________

______

 

In the year

2026, 

"Stevie" 

is a

NEW YORK TIMES

puzzle maestro,

enlightening

people

on that newspaper's

second-most popular puzzle

(out of ≈50) 

 

It is the

NewYork Times Spelling Bee 

 

It is the puzzle

whose primary reference

is a

4th Grade 

Flunk + Wagnalls

Dictionary

__________

______

 

 

❗❗❗ 

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BURNT STROGANOFF ... A Teaser

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TEASER ? 

This award-winning story

began life

during my brief residency

in Hollywood

on Gower Street,

3 blocks south

of

Hollywood Boulevard

 

 BUT

when I received

$20 

from Joan Rivers,

my career

stupidly followed

a different direction

_____________________

_________

 

However,

it is a complete story

[copyrighted, of course]

and

anyone offering

a reasonable quantity

of $

will receive

a hand-delivered

copy

 

 

Sincerely,

© PAUL OLIVERIO © 

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Halloween Glass Block

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PhotoVerio #1081.5 

"Dennyista Amore"

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_______

 

It's not necessary

for anyone

other than 

 Schmuck-i-verio 

to understand

the Spanglish quote 

  

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Variation Of A Previously-Posted Photograph

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*** 

© Oliverio ©

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