The GoFather Of Math: March 2019

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, March 31, 2019

DJ-Verio ... # Next ... Words Of Wisdom From Crackerbox Palace

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Some times are good

Some times are bad

That's all a part of life

***

GEORGE HARRISON

Welcome to Crackerbox Palace

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Footnotes

The song may be prefaced

by a deleteable advert

The next GoFather/Beatles page
is here

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Despite Good Intentions, This Job Lasted Exactly One Hour

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He tried to sell

Big Macs for $10.00

claiming there was

a celebrity surcharge

LOL w/ Letterman

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Photoverio #379: Julie Fifteen

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Friday, March 29, 2019

Two Rails Diverged Near A Yellow-Tooth Tunnel

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This image is from
the January 1999 issue of
COMMUNICATION ARTS

Once again,
I apologize to
Robert Frost

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Another Quote From The Man Wearing A Black Leather Jacket

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Words are all we have, really.
We have thoughts

but thoughts are fluid.

Then we assign a word to a thought
and we're stuck with that word
for that thought,
so be careful with words.

I like to think that the same words
that hurt can heal.
It’s a matter of how you pick them.

***

GEORGE CARLIN

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Quoting A Man Wearing A Black Leather Jacket

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People who see life

as anything more than

pure entertainment

are missing the point

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GEORGE CARLIN

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The 119th Bullet: Irony In High Heel Sneakers

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If you cannot ever say

"I did something really stupid,"

you cannot really be

very smart

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Footnotes

THE 119th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Only the first forty-five Bullets

are linked in order to make

our favorite thieves work harder

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DJ-Verio ... Number Next ... A Funny Thing

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Satisfaction is a funny thing.
Funny enough that when

she brings it up,
he laughs a little bit
before he breaks down.

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CRAIG FINN

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Sometimes But Not Always [HKu #67]

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Sometimes,
the best course of action
is to say nothing more than
Thank you

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Footnotes
SOMETIMES BUT NOT ALWAYS

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The next GoFather Haiku page
is here

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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Honey, I Forgot To Duck

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If you fired six bullets

at the President of the United States

in a span of three seconds

...

And one of those bullets

barely missed the President's heart

while another bullet

incapacitated his Press Secretary

...

And you spent that night in jail

...

Would you expect to ever live

in a gated community

within three hours of

Washington DC

feeling

"HAPPY AS A CLAM"

???

YES
would be the answer

if you're name was

JOHN HINCKLEY

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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Photoverio #378: Wet Window View Of Harlem

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The Building Blocks Of The Modern TOWER OF BABEL

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Who amongst them
will take on
~~the King of Babel~~
Donald Trump
in the 2020 Presidential Election
???

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here

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Friday, March 22, 2019

This Is A White-On-Black Poem About ... THIS

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Footnote
The editor of this "poem"
was bold enough to re-title
the highlighted song
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Thursday, March 21, 2019

We Can't Go On Meeting Like This ... #11

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DJ-Verio ... Number Next ... Bobby, Yo-Yo, Jimi And Johann

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Whoever thought Classical Music

was humorless

has never listened to this

rendition of

Mustte in D

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Footnote

The surnames of the four musicians are

McFerrin, Ma, Hendrix and Bach

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A Hawkes Eye View ... Sic And Reformatted

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Strangers had come to mourn,

and that mourning

—visiting with the dead—

was the last desperate attempt,

the last chance for gossip

***

JOHN HAWKES

The Cannibal

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Footnote

The link to the author shows the cover

of The Cannibal, Mr. Hawkes first novel.

Vis-a-vis the controversy

involving Orange County teenagers

and swastikas,

I am too chickenshit to show

the bookcover which was designed

by Mrs. CarPeo's best friend,

Gilda Kuhlman

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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Birds Diverge When Poems Get Cannibalized

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Two birds diverged in a yellow tree

and sorry I could not climb

or be a bird dog without a flea

or a creature from the sea.

All I could do was rhyme

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PAUL OLIVERIO

With Apologies to Robert Frost

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Pi Day At The PIE BAR On Pine Ave. With Horsey McHorseShoe

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The fourteenth day of March,

is also known as

3.14

Nationally,
it is celebrated as
Pi Day

Yesterday,
at the PIE BAR,

a slice of Key Lime Pie

cost $3.14

and contained

mega-yummitude

Mr. McHorseShoe's autograph

also cost

$3.14

But I had 3.14 reasons
to not overspend
and had to settle for
his photograph


© Oliverio 3.14 is the only day of the year Americans write with a decimal point There is no truth to the rumor that the original name of PI DAY was Circumference Over Diameter Day

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You Do Not Have To Translate This Image To Find Jelly Oso

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Jelly Oso
is available wherever
humans gather
—and always has been—

It can be found whenever
someone has more than you do
or someone you love
might be wanted by someone
better than yourself

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Jelly Oso
—unfortunately—
does not always
take the shape
of a cute little animal

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Nine Word Song Title That Doubles As A Nine Word Poem

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Tired of trying

Bored of lying

Afraid of dying

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MANFRED MANN

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Footnotes

The song may be prefaced by

a very deletable advert

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Quoting The Most Famous Nun In The World ... And Then Some

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Sister Wendy Beckett

Click here
for a recommended book
written by Sister Wendy

It is the only one
of her thirty books
with
a John Coltrane title

The last link is prefaced by
a deletable advert

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Monday, March 11, 2019

Photoverio #377: Marina Pacifica Blacks And Whites

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Photoverio #376: Marina Pacifica Blues

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Rorschached Exactly Three Years After The Centennial Birthday

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Doctor,

I apologize for

misspelling your name

on this image

But what is more important
is that cloudface:
the most important member
of the Oliverio 2.0 family

She was looking
straight down at me
and said
Paul, you are not invited
to your Father's Birthday party

That made me feel good
despite my being the perfect son
since 1971

Why 1971?

That is the year they both died
and I was twenty-two years old
(with the maturity of a two year-old)

The non-invitation meant that
I was not going to die
despite having
a rainbow of suicidal feelings
How did you overcome
those feelings?

By relinquishing my obsession
with the Oliverio 2.0 family

2.0 family?

All my dead relatives

Interesting

Anyway, Doctor Rorschach,
I have a birthday card
for the birthday boy

I'm sure he can see it
from the Eternal Garden
and he will excuse me
for using an image
from three years ago

I'm sure he will
forgive you
when he's not too busy
celebrating some family occasion

Thank you for understanding,
Dr. Rorschach.
You can keep this photograph

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Footnotes
The second image was designed
by Mrs. CarPeo

The first image
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

I asked my Mother
if there was any truth to the rumor
that my sister was dating Ricky Nelson:

"Not true. She's dating
Buddy Clark
who sang a song about Linda
the year she was born
then he died the year
her brother was born"

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K-Town Bleached But Unforgotten

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When I was courageous enough
to jog uphill in Katonah,
this was part of the scenery
and it looked exactly the same
on the return trip
when I jogged
downhill

Meanwhile,
at
the
Muscoot Dam
*
*
*

And these are my souvenirs

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Sunday, March 10, 2019

My Metric Sonnet ... ABCD ... EFGD ... HIJD ... JKLD ... MD

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Smokestack faces

fill the sky

with one eye

facing east

Backdoor ravens

flap their wings

with a message

that never ceased

Lean-to ladies

shake their hips

holding court

for the feast

Ding-dong do-gooders

never know

which ones

need them least

But that's not true
for the presiding priest

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

OLIVERIO METRIC POEM

ABCD ... EFGD ... HIJD ... JKLD

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Lower Case Poem About The Let Up Of The Lowdown

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sometimes it feels

like my feet

are buried in cement

but if cement could swim

all my fish would fly

and never again

would i cry
under a silver moon

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes
LOWER CASE POEM ABOUT
THE LET UP OF THE LOWDOWN

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

It was written one hour

before being posted

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What You Could Never Do [HKu #66]

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If there were no repitition,
you could never
do anything twice

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Footnotes
WHAT YOU COULD NEVER DO

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The next GoFather Haiku page is
here

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Saturday, March 9, 2019

Four Of A Kind #3 ... Our Visit To The Oval Office

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The Nixon Library
(October, 2017)

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Footnote
None of these images are copyrighted
and may be used by anyone
foolish enough to do so

The next page in this series
is here
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The Legendary Six-Word Novel

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For sale,

baby shoes,

never used

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Attributed to Ernest Hemingway

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Photoverio #375: Palmistry With A Black And White Makeover

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Footnote
The photograph was taken
at Alamitos Beach
(90802)
exactly two years ago tomorrow

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

This Is Not An Exponentially Short Story

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Gertrude said nothing;
she was afraid to speak.

There was a kind of rage in her heart;
she felt as if she could easily
persuade herself that she was persecuted.

***

HENRY JAMES

The Europeans

(1878)

Not "Exponentially Short"

but Mr. James' novella

was originally subtitled

"A Sketch"

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President Trump And President Clinton On The Same Rage Page

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The aforementioned "case"
names two Presidents,
two Royals and two Jews
in the last sentence

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here

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The Exponentially Short Story Of She Asked, I Answered

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She asked what I had done that day

“As little as humanly possible”

She asked how I did it

“As often as humanly possible”

She asked if it was enjoyable

“I don’t know, I wasn’t really there”

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

SHE ASKED, I ANSWERED
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

In my younger days,
this page would have been
in the "He Said, She Said" format

The next "Exponentially Short" page
is TBD.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The 118th Bullet: Illusion Is Everything

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It is not what you know
that counts.

It is what people think
you know.

Never let them
think otherwise.

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Footnotes

THE 118th 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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