Monday, June 29, 2020

Undifferentiated Mass Of STBA+A = The Donald

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MICHAEL GERSON


The next
GoFather/Trump page
is  here
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Photoverio #468: Mi Casa Del Mar Upward Bound

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© Oliverio
Above The Garage
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Starbucks Mugs: Anti-Gravitational And Psychedelic

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Five-Star Starbucks
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The Thirty-Fifth Page In This Series

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We can't go on
meeting like this 


From the hippest and weirdest
Alice In Wonderland 
ever filmed

The next page 
in this series
is  here 
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The 147th Bullet: Covid-19 Is For Lovers Of Small Creatures

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The Corona Virus
is nothing more than humans
proving how much
they love Lemmings
 
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Footnote
THE 147th BULLET
is the copyrighted property of
the Lewis Carroll School of Logic
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Photoverio #467: Just Like A Human ... NH #10

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  She has seen better days

© Oliverio
Belmont Bleaching

"It satisfies your inner pollen"
- Neil Hoos

NH #11 is  here
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Buttons: Then And Now

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  Once was a time when
I would push buttons
and get
results

Now is the time when
I push buttons
and get
buttons
***

PAUL OLIVERIO



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Footnote
BUTTONS: THEN AND NOW
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Friday, June 26, 2020

The Thirty-Forth Page In This Series

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We can't go on
meeting like this 

You would have to
count to infinity
to measure 
the talents of
Billie Holiday and Orson Welles 
 
The next page 
in this series
is   here  
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Is This Picture Posted By A Stalker???

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The answer would be YES
only if...
The person posting this picture
was NOT the younger brother
of the girl in the image

I was three years old
when my sister
was on the lawn
of our Grandparents' house

The year was 1952

This is Linda Oliverio 

If an hour goes by
without my thinking
about her,
it is an unusual day
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Photoverio #466: Nature is Not Always ...

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Nature is not always pretty
© Oliverio

Sometimes,
it is quite gnarly
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Thursday, June 25, 2020

From Sea To Shining Sea

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When Fascism comes to America,
it will be wrapped in a flag
and carrying a cross
***

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Someone Else's Haiku

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Burning out its time,
And timing its own burning,
My own candle
***


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The sparrow
hops along the veranda
with wet feet
***



The next
GoFather/Haiku
page is  TBD
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This Mask Will Not Help You Avoid Covid-19 ... BUT ...

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you can win it
at auction
 

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Crystalized By Nikolas Kristof

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NICHOLAS KRISTOF 

The next
GoFather/Trump page
is  here
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Civil Whites ... (Comic Relief # 3309)

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KELLY
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Photoverio #465: Two Roses For Carol (Plus One Petal)

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© Oliverio
As Promised

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Photoverio #464: Security System

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© Oliverio








I've got my eye on you

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Monday, June 22, 2020

Expanding On A NEIL HOOS Quote ... NH #9

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The human landscape
is an all-you-can-eat buffet
with free-range gerunds
and the best photographer
has an insatiable lens
 
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Footnotes
The next Neil Hoos page
is  here

The last time I heard the word
gerund
was in high school
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Accidental Shock + "Thoughtful Constructive Teacher" ... NH #8

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The quote (and image)
are from Neil Hoos
but I need to expand
on his words:

It is an excellent teacher
who teaches the lesson
without any moralizing

The next Neil Hoos page
is  here
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Photoverio #463: Prematurely Retired $125 Racketball Racket

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After two years of use
plus four years
in the trunk
of my car

© Oliverio
Dubious Wall Collage
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Photoverio #462: Staircase In Mid-Flight

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© Oliverio
Dedicated To Lee Miller
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The Hungry States Of America

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America is a really frightening construct
that is eating people every day
***

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Sunday, June 21, 2020

To Make A Quatrain ... Number Twenty-Eight

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To make a quatrain about 
bouncing with the brothers

Today's hip-hop dancers
are tomorrow's unwed mothers
 ***

 
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Footnotes
TO MAKE A QUATRAIN
...
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal

The next page
in this series
is  here
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Rorschach # 40: Under A Midnight Moon

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Doctor, I see
a white-shirted man
with a black sleeve
sitting under a midnight moon

© CarPeos
Dedicated to
Tommy Smith + Juan Carlos
 


The next page
in this series
is  here
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Norobics, The Sequel ... With Footnoted Inspiration ... NH #7

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No light without dark
no reverse gear without park

No ups without downs
no circus without clowns

No billiard ball bouncing
under the green felt

No more punching people
under the seatbelt
***


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Footnotes
Neil Hoos inspired this poem
by emailing me the phrase
"No punching under the seatbelt"

NOROBICS, THE SEQUEL
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

Written in 2014,
NOROBICS dates back
to the days when I had
Racketball Championship
delusions

I received Neil's email
two days ago

His next page is  here
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A Poem For The Pandemic By JERICHO BROWN

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SAY THANK YOU, SAY I'M SORRY

I don’t know whose side you’re on,
But I am here for the people
Who work in grocery stores 
That glow in the morning
And close down for deep cleaning 
At night.

Right up the street and in cities 
I mispronounce,
In towns too tiny for my big black
Car to quit, and in every wide corner
Of Kansas where going to school means
At least one field trip
To a slaughterhouse. 

I want so little: another leather bound
Book, a gimlet with a lavender gin, bread
So good when I taste it I can tell you
How it’s made. I’d like us to rethink
What it is to be a nation. 
I’m in a mood about America
Today. I have PTSD
About the Lord. 
God save the people who work
In grocery stores. 

They know a bit of glamour
Is a lot of glamour. 

They know how much
It costs for the eldest of us to eat. Save
My loves and not my sentences. 
Before I see them,
I draw a mole near my left dimple,
Add flair to the smile they can’t see
Behind my mask. I grin or lie or maybe
I wear the mouth of a beast. 
I eat wild animals
While some of us grow up knowing
What gnocchi is. 

The people who work at the grocery don’t care.

They say, Thank you. They say, Sorry,
We don’t sell motor oil anymore 
with a grief so thick
You could touch it. 
Go on. Touch it.

It is early. It is late. 
They have washed their hands.
They have washed their hands for you.
And they take the bus home.

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Friday, June 19, 2020

June 19, 2020 ... A Letter To The President Of The United States

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Dear PRESIDENT TRUMP

You had the decency
to reschedule your Tulsa Rally
so that it didn't coincide
with Juneteenth, which is today.

Tulsa was the city where
black people were massacred
because of the color
of their skin.


You will be there tomorrow for
a Presidential re-election rally
and it is possible for you
to act truly Presidential
and invite a special guest
for the occasion.


 He was a one-year-old resident
of Tulsa when everything
in the thriving Black community
was burned to the ground.

Three hundred Negroes
were killed that day
but HAL SINGER survived
and is still alive.

 

Nicknamed "Cornbread"
for one of his song titles,
HAL SINGER 
is a tad bit older than
when this photograph
was taken.
 
Mr. President,
prove that you have
a heart and do
what it takes
to have Mr. Singer
attend your Tulsa rally.

Maybe he can still play
saxophone, so just add
a trumpet for a duet
or have his music
entertain
all the Trumpeteers
at the Trump rally.
 
Mr. President,
 please honor this survivor
in Tulsa tomorrow.

He survived what
may have been the 
most devastating display
of racial supremacy
in American history.

Honor HAL SINGER
in Tulsa to demonstrate 
that YOU, our President,
truly believe that the
United States of America
is not a country designed
for only white people.



Sincerely,

Paul Oliverio
June 19, 2020
        
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Footnotes
JUNE 19, 2020
A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES
is the copyrighted property
of the LCSoL

The next GoFather/Trump
page is  here 
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On This Day ... For Americans Of All Colors, I Sincerely Wish ...

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Have the most fun
in the safest, most solemn
 way possible
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A Bolt of Nuclear Lightning

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John Bolton's political philosophy
is to the right
of Charlie Manson

He always looks like
he wants to nuke somebody

His wish has 
been granted

Bolton has just
dropped a nuclear bomb
on the man in the White House


But President Trump may be more
cockroach-than-human
and prove himself capable
of surviving a nuclear attack


However, if the  nuke succeeds
in de-throning Trump
AND 
de-thorning the President
into exiting peacefully
 from the White House
on January 20,  2021
 
Mr. Bolton will have earned
every penny of his $2 million dollar
mega-bomb



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Footnotes
A BOLT OF NUCLEAR LIGHTNING
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

The next
GoFather/Trump page
is  TBD
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Thursday, June 18, 2020

A T-Shirt Catering To Our Delusions

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Jay Pegg

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A Poop Scoop From ONION NEWS

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Trump's Dumps
***

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here 
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Photoverio #461: Doing What Comes Natural

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Right outside our door
!!!
© Oliverio
Add your own caption 
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

To Make A Quatrain ... Number Twenty-Seven

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To make a quatrain about
the life and death code

Suicide is just death
in a fast-forward mode
 ***

 
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Footnotes
TO MAKE A QUATRAIN
....
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal

The next page
in this series
is  here
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Three Photographs Selected By Neil Hoos ... NH #6

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Photographer n/a
Photographer n/a

HAROLD FEINSTEIN
Sheet Music, Coney Island
(1950) 

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Footnote
The next Neil Hoos page
is  here
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God Is Everywhere ... Some Places More Than Others

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MATT BLACK
Doña Ana County, New Mexico
2017 
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

A Greenwich Village Watering Hole For Artistically Bent Elbows

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LAFAYETTE:
A Saloon for the Salon
(1937)

Photograph by  Berenice Abbott

A more accurate word than "fan"
in the description below:
Dawn Powell was
the "centerpiece"
of the Lafayette

The scribbles in both images
are mine.

On the Mount Olympus
of 20th Century American literature,
there is a place for both
Dawn Powell and John Cheever


Ernest Hemingway once described
Dawn Powell as his
"favorite living author"

I have read more than
two thousand pages
written by (or about)
Dawn Powell

She was born in 1896

John Cheever 
was born in 1912

I have read three novels and
sixty short stories 
 by Cheever

Cocktails and conversation
are essential ingredients
in the literature of both
Powell and Cheever

Part of my appreciation
of Cheever is enhanced
by feeling the
literary DNA
of Dawn Powell
in his stories

I always sensed
they had spent
quality time together
somewhere

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Footnotes
My next Dawn Powell page
is TBD

Unfortunately,
my six Cheever pages
are not linked together
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