Vis A Vis The Last Two Pages, We Quote Mr. Steerling

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I am not a name dropper.

I do not drop names.

I smash them against the wall

and admire the sparkling shards

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FRANCES STEERLING

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Footnote
The next GoFather/Steerling
page is
here

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A Frances Steerling Fantasy For Baseball Fans + Jeff Bezos

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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens,

Sammy Sosa and Manny Ramirez

wrote a letter to the richest man

in America:

Dear Mr. Bezos

Please buy up all of the steroids

in the United States

and have your spin doctors

create a new image

for those performance enhancing entities.

Pay your spin doctoring masters of marketing

whatever it takes

to make steroids

as culturally acceptable as

Viagra which is also

a performance enhancing entitiy

THEN AND ONLY THEN

will the undersigned

receive their due reward

and be chosen for enshrinement

in the Baseball Hall of Fame

Sincerely,

 

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Footnotes

A FRANCES STEERLING FANTASY

FOR BASEBALL FANS

AND JEFF BEZOS

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

Mr. Steerling allowed this fantasy

to be published on the condition

that the page above contained neither

hyperlink nor image
other than that
of the signatories
 

However,

the next GoFather/Steerling page

is the very next page

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A Frances Steerling Fantasy For Pseudo + Literary Intellectuals

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Frances Steerling
permitted only one
hyperlink
for this quote

While sea hawks flew overhead,
Henry Miller and Franz Kafka
gave birth to a book.

They were on H.P. Lovecraft's boat
with Germaine Greer.

It was edited by Salvador Dali
then published by Albert Camus.

All of the above
agreed to title the book
THE PASSION ARTIST
and give authorship to
John Hawkes


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Footnotes
A FRANCES STEERLING FANTASY
FOR PSEUDO +LITERARY INTELLECTUALS
ia the copyrighted property of LCSoL

This John Hawkes page is dedicated to
Ernie Gregthea and Robert Louthan

The next GoFather/Steerling page
is the very next page
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Vis A Vis The Last Two Pages, We Revisit This Quote

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Statistics conceal

as much as

they reveal

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THE 13th BULLET 

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97% Of Women Surveyed Said The Same Thing: What A Jerk

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A man, who shall go un-named,

has extremely limited access to

NewYorkTimes.com,

He claims to be a person

with a fairly global world view.

BUT

at the end of January, when he could

choose only one more article

from the world's most

influential newspaper,

he chose to read about

a football player

with a funny name

When the man was asked for a comment
about his chosen literature,
all this man said was
Let's go Rams

The other three percent
of women asked about
this dubious man
said,
"Obviously,
he lives in a man cave." 

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97% Said The Same Thing: Of Course, He's Mobbed Up

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In 1988, a survey of New Yorkers

were asked about whether or not

Donald Trump had connections

with the Mafia

Three percent of the people surveyed

said
"Is the sky blue?"

The future President
with alleged mobster,
Robert Libutti

This may explain why,
in 2016,
Trump received
only 10% 
of the vote
in Manhattan 

The next
GoFather/Trump page
is
here 

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Irony Notwithstanding, She Was Deservedly Awarded For This

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Hilde Schramm,
the daughter of Albert Speer,
is being honored with
a German Jewish History award

Hilde Schramm
is the antithesis of
Cornelius Hildebrandt 

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Photoverio #365: Seagulls And Their Patio Furniture

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© Oliverio
Bread-fed from
below the bluff
(2017) 

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The Capacity Does Not Include Jesus

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Art Daily
Did Jesus have
a chrome dome?

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Love Poem Hand Delivered To Zelda But Not From Her Husband

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Zelda, fair queen of Alabam’
Across the waves I kiss you!
You think I am a stone, a clam;
You think that I don’t give a damn,
But God! how I will miss you!
My heart goes with you as you sail.
God grant you won’t be seasick!
The thought of you abaft the rail,
Diffusing meat and ginger ale,
Makes both my wife and me sick.

***
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RING LARDNER 

(1924)

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Footnotes
Ring Lardner was Scott Fitzgerald's life long
drinking buddy and in no way was their relationship
hindered by this poem

Scott wrote  an elegy entitled RING
when Lardner died in 1933

Ellis Lardner was Ring's wife
and she approved of her husband's
fascination with Zelda Fitzgerald

The steamer trunks pictured here
are from the Fitzgerald's return from Paris

The next GoFather/Fitzgerald page is  here 
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Steerling Poem About 1971 Cross-Island Parkway Walkathon

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THE BIKER

easier to listen to

than to like

when everyone's walking

he's on his bike

talking while pedaling

to a pedestrian throng

Left foot, Right foot

but Left is never wrong

Left foot, Right foot

Good foot, Better foot

but it is all

for your 

bene-foot

***

FRANCES STEERLING

    

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Footnotes

THE BIKER is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

The next  GoFather/Steerling page

is TBD

The 1971 Cross-Island Parkway Walkathon
was sponsored by Dow Chemicals
where Frances' father was a chemist
and Frances was
—at that time—
a phraseologist

Frances did not attend the event
but based the poem
on his father's
recollections 

The Walkathon took place here:

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The Doors of Deception

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It is no secret that Jim Morrison

named his band after

Alduous Huxley's book,

The Doors of Perception

Neither is it a secret

that the title of this page

is not exactly

Huxley's book title

Huxley's book was about

LSD and made hallucinogens

required mind candy

for an entire generation

Sixties hipsters

did LSD

Better minds than mine

have written on that subject

BUT
none have written about
The Doors of Deception

It is a book
that is impossible to find
unless you are an elected official:

All politicians must pass through
the Doors of Deception
to master the art
of duping voters into
believing in their sincerity

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Footnotes
THE DOORS OF DECEPTION
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

Google at your own risk

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Photoverio #364: The Kingdom Of Kirkland

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© Oliverio
Costco Patio 6AM
(2012)

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Comedian Goes To "War" Then Gives Aid To Enemy

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Patton Oswald
got into a Twitter battle
with a 64-year-old
who suffered
an eight-day diabetes coma 

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Two Minutes Fifty-Two Seconds Of Franz Kafka

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Narrated by Orson Welles,

this video

is excerpted from the book

that gave the world

the term

"Kafkaesque"

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Nothing But The Blues With A Footnote + Quadpyright

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Enter below the sunburst

Take a 290 stroll
then...

Follow the tar paste pattern

To the parking lot

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Footnote
These four Oliverio images
are the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

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Unpublished Verses Of ... He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

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He's got a Tattoo of New Jersey

on his chest

Teaneck is the town

he loves the best

He's got the whole world in his hands

He's got a bunion on his foot

and it hurts him, you know

right where he squashed Satan

with his big toe

He's got the whole world in his hands

He's got earrings of Jimmy Carter

building a barn

and Susan B. Anthony

knitting red white + blue yarn

He's got the whole world in his hands

***

***

FRANCES STEERLING 

  

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Footnotes

UNPUBLISHED VERSES OF ...

HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

Accompanied by the Blind Girls of Amsco,

Mr. Steerling first sang these verses

in Greenwich Village,

fifty years ago:

The Blind Girls of Amsco sang

two published verses

without Frances before

an off-stage voice shouted

What else he got?

Frances then sang lead

for the "unpublished" verses  

 

The next Frances Steerling page

is  here 

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From THE GODFATHER Of Modern American Literature

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Mark Twain
once said:
Morals only make sense
to a man on a full stomach

But
cats have morals

only when they so desire

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We Can't Go On Meeting Like This ... #8

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photograph by
Alain Jocard

 Art Daily

The next
"We can't go on"
page is
here

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Charley And Charles: Mixing It Up In Black + White

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Take it from the top in
Dewey Square 
where the M...
stands for Miles Davis

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The 114th Bullet: What Cats And Dogs Are Most Grateful For

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Cats and dogs are most
deeply indebted to
the idiotic behavior of humans.

Such behavior enables

other humans to give

extra tender loving care

to their furry friends. 

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 Footnotes

THE 114th BULLET 
is the copyrighted property of  LCSoL
 
Only the first 45 Bullets are linked together
because we do not want to make life easy
for our favorite thieves
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The Only Frances Steerling Poem Published Without Permission

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ANONYMOUSLY ANOMALOUS 

I am an anomaly

painted enamel

when everyone is oil-based

I am an anomaly

looking like an animal

when everyone is vegetable-faced

I am an anomaly

doing minimally

when everyone does the maximum

I am an anomaly

talking abominably

when everyone else is mum

I am a liar

but that breaks

the rhyme scheme

Do I make myself

perfectly unclear?

***

FRANCES STEERLING

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Footnotes

ANONYMOUSLY ANOMALOUS

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

It is believed that Frances

wrote this poem

at age thirteen

when he ditched class

by hiding in 

a junior high school bus

The next Frances Steerling page

is TBD

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Photoverio #363: Wired, Woven, And Shadowy

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© Oliverio

We can't go on
meeting like this
#7

The next
"We can't go on"
page is
here 

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Photoverio #362: The Lion In The Lobby Of 444 Ocean Boulevard

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© Oliverios
The Lion Fish 

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A Condominium's Botanical Declaration Of Independence

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We hold this image

to be

—quite evidently—

disheveled

and disposable

BUT
refuse to junk it
because
it gave us
this mysterious and succulent
Sweet Bird of Paradise

  
© Oliverio (2x)

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DJ-verio's 3rd Songlist ... #571428 ... The Pianist On Earth Angel

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We go through life

at such a fast pace
giving old Father Time
an endless chase

***

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BARRY WHITE
All In The Run Of The Day

 
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Footnote

When he was eleven years old,

Barry White was the pianist

on the original recording

of the Penguins'

Earth Angel

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That Crossroad Moment When Mr. J. Christ Spoke In Slang

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The Institute of Inane Research

determined that the following words

were spoken on Golgotha:

 Let 'em slide, Daddio

What they know is nada

and they gotta

do what you

want 'em

to do

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Footnotes

THAT CROSSROADS MOMENT

WHEN MR. J. CHRIST

SPOKE IN SLANG

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

This page is dedicated to

Lord Buckley

The video link

is preceeded by

a deletable advert

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CarPeo Set Piece #84: From A Bench Above The Bluff

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© Mrs. CarPeo
Through The Hummingbird's Paradise

The next
CarPeo Set Piece is
here

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A Quatrain About The Great Divide

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John Hawkes
Cauda

Dedicated to
F. Martin Champ

The next Hawkes page is  here  

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Packing Lead

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They just stepped
down from the bench

The pencils spoke
a little French

Dreaming of a wench

Then walked away

With thoughts of
Dame Judith Dench

The opposite of stench

She can make them
a mensch

They'll have a lot
to say
***

PAUL OLIVERIO


The pencil "sculpture"
was created in 1997   

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Footnotes
PACKING LEAD is the copyrighted property
of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

The photograph is the copyrighted property
 of Paul Oliverio and LCSoL
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Photoverio #361: Jackie, Mona, Liberace And A Phone Number

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© Oliverio
Window Shopping
at Rockefeller Center
(August, 2015)

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More Frances Steerling Poetry From 1999

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TIME TIMES TWO

Time is on her side

unless her opposite sides

have a staring contest

Time will pass her by

unless she stops it

from flying between

her legs

***

FRANCES STEERLING

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Footnotes

TIME TIMES TWO

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

According to legend,

the original title of the poem was

WHILE LISTENING TO IRMA THOMAS

The next Frances Steerling page

is  here 

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Skating The Center Link [HKu #65]

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If anger were currency,
we'd all be
richer than Rockefeller.

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Footnotes
SKATING THE CENTER LINK

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

SKATING THE CENTER LINK
is dedicated to Prometheus

The next GoFather Haiku page is
here

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Scalloped Words That Are More The Rule Than The Exception

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Nathanael West

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If Johnnie Johnson Were As Famous As The New York Yankees ...

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Then
Alvin Bennett would be

as famous as 

Wally Pipp

According to legend 
on June 2, 1925

a painful headache caused

New York Yankee first baseman,  

Wally Pipp, to be replaced by

a relatively inexperienced

baseball player named

Lou Gehrig

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Mr. Gehrig then proceeded to set
the record books on fire
and helped make the New York Yankees 
the most famous ball club
in the universe

Wally Pipp became famous
for getting benched

His name became a verb:
You've been Wally Pipped
means you lost your job to someone who is
much better at it than you are
all because of something 
as inconsequential as
a headache
 

BUT
Alvin Bennett did not swing a bat:
he was a musician in
Johnny Johnson's Trio

No one would ever mistake
the Cosmopolitan Club
in East St. Louis, Missouri
for Yankee Stadium
in the Bronx

AND
The Cosmopolitan Club
was Johnnie Johnson's
playing field  
 
In the middle of the 20th Century, 
if music—instead of baseball—
had been our national past time,
everyone would know
the rest of this story:

According to fact,
On December 31, 1951,
Alvin Bennett was too ill
to play with Jonnie Johnson's trio.

He was replaced by
a relatively inexperienced
musician named
Chuck Berry
 

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Mr. Berry then proceeded to set

the world of recorded music

on fire

He helped make

Rock n' Roll

the most popular

music in the world

According to the hyperlink
in his name,
Chuck Berry paid homage
to Johnnie Johnson
in a song entitled
Johnny B. Goode

Both Chuck Berry
(1986)
and Lou Gehrig
(1939)
are charter members,
respectively,
of the Rock n'Roll
and Baseball
HALL OF FAME


It is virtually impossible
to find an image of Alvin Bennett
but an image of Wally Pipp
plus his baseball stats
is available
here 

 
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DJ-verio's 3rd Songlist ... #428571 ... A Progeny Of Huckleberry

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You regaled us with the way

that you triumphed over darkness

The kisses in the shadow

and the stockings
 

But as the pieces come together

there's these things that I keep hearing
 

About the hero that you are

when no one's watching

***

***

CRAIG FINN

When No One's Watching

The video

is prefaced by

a deleteable advert

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