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, March 11, 2020

The Original Corona Virus ... Jackson Heights, NY, June 29, 1958

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At O'Grady's Erie Bar
in Jackson Heights
Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary
were known as
The Inebriatos

The bar was
under an elevated subway
and the neighborhood
was partly under
the poverty level

Pops O'Grady
set aside a corner table
for the Inebriatos

Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary
had the blues
and their table
was painted blue

Their table also contained
forty empty bottles
of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

After deciding not to smash
the juke box because someone
had just played
twelve times in a row,
the Inebriatos
started talking about
HER

😢 😢😢😢
Barry, Harry, Larry and Gary
all loved the same girl

The girl
lived in a castle
and regarded the four 
nineteen-year-old boys
as lower than the dust
beneath her chariot wheels

The castle was in a neighboring town
and the girl's name was
IRIS

The neighboring town was
CORONA
 
Naturally,
rhyming came easy for
Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary
and so they sang:

Her parent were doctors
from Arizona
who bought a castle
in Corona

The castle would never be
visited by us
but in it lived a girl
named Iris

Just her name:
it gives us shivers
just to touch her,
we'd donate our livers

Our hearts are broken,
our mouths always cussing
despite always having
Flora from Flushing

What will become
of us
stricken by
the Corona Iris

She don't know
how it feels
to be crushed by
her chariot wheels

 What will become
of us
stricken by
the Corona Virus 
...
...


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Footnotes
THE ORIGINAL CORONA VIRUS
JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY, 1958
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

Especially the lyrics
to the song 

I apologize to anyone
offended by geographical liberties
regarding the Borough of Queens

has determined that the castle owned
by the family of Iris Wantagh
morphed into a parking lot
for Shea Stadium

They also determined
Flora from Flushing
became a distinguished
high school principal
in Los Angeles
  
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