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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Monday, September 30, 2019

The River Side And The Other Side

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He was a man
of many opinions

Some of which
have not changed
since last Thursday

He was a boy
who could swing a bat
harder than anyone
yet never hit the ball

He was a child
who could spell the word
argumentative
before most children
could spell either 
cat or dog

But his longest arguments
were with himself

He could fall asleep
by the river side
contemplating ways
to get to the other side

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PAUL OLIVERIO


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Footnotes
THINKING BY THE RIVER SIDE
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

Part of this poem was first written
thirty years ago
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