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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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

MY CONFESSION: After Driving 577 Miles From Hazeburg, VA

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≈ On August 20, 2016 ≈
I swam
illegally
in this pool
but only after
photographing it
through
a sliding glass door

"Tennessee Health Department
shut down the pool because
the lights are not working"

So I had been told
by the hotel clerk

But after pointing to
the freeway-adjacent
flashing neon sign
that read
HEATED POOL
CABLE TV
and  slipping him
a green picture
of a dead president,
he allowed me to swim

However,
that was not
the only criminal offense:
we smuggled two cats
into our hotel room
without paying
a surcharge
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Footnotes
The photograph is the copyrighted property
of the Lew Carroll School of Logic

The unlit pool lived up to
the neon proclamation:
it was heated to
approximately
80 degrees
Fahrenheit

The dead president
was Andrew Jackson
but the twenty laps
—one for each dollar—
of luxurious swimming
with only me
in the pool 
made it worth
every penny
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