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, February 10, 2019

The Eulogy He Read At His Mother's Funeral

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Listening to Purcell,
she said the worse'll
never come

She was picking flowers
from her nose

While angels danced
on her toes

Miles posted on her thighs
but those eyes:

One wink and the world 
would wonder what happened

Their sparkle
stopped the rain

And their pain 

made my father
beg for mercy

Her poetry
taught her son
the alphabet
***

FRANCES STEERLING


For
Francine Bierce Steerling

b. October 21, 1918
d. June 29, 1975

  
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Footnotes
This eulogy was read at Our Lady of Fatima 
in Alberquerque on
July 3, 1975

 Ray Peterssen, to whom this blog is dedicated,
was in attendance at Francine's funeral

The Purcell music referenced
in the first line of the eulogy was
 
The next 
GoFather/Steerling page
is
here 
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