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They are making a movie
and it is all about me
but it is starring Bette Davis
who is older than 103.
It will have all my ups
and all my downs
Every sacred moment when I
was at one with the clowns
Murder he did
but was only a kid
Talent he wrought
and filed to naught
Girls he remembers
but only loved numbers
Featuring Nick Nolte
as my mother
And Meryl Streep
as my brother
Two years in jail
on a single Utah night*
Conversing with every
jailer in sight**
Lots of success
morphed to blight
Someday maybe
they will get it right.
Like Nina's bio pic
it is not for me to see
Improving my chance
to end happily
I cannot afford the tragic
but I love the mathemagic
It is not for me to see
when all I want is to be
Is there anyone who cared
or added to b squared...
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Footnotes
ALL ABOUT ME is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.
*
That night in August of 1968 took place in Logan City, Cache County
and, along with two friends we were overnight "guests" in a jail cell
because one of the friends had crashed my car.
**
If Officer O'brien, the "arresting" officer reads this, please accept
eternal gratitude from Oliverio, Gretschel, & O'Grady.
The last name mentioned was the errant driver but Kevin
also inspired the O'GRADY NUMBERS.
If ever another drop of alcohol touched my lips,
I would be delighted if it happened under the
Roosevelt Avenue El, three doorswest
of Junction Boulevard.
That was where there was a funhouse
known as O'Grady's Erie Bar.
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It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...
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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