Succinctly Stated + Quintessentially True But Genderly Incomplete

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A villain is the hero

of his own myths

***

CHRISTOPHER VOGLER 

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Something The World's Greatest Basketball Player Was Not

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All About Michael Jordan, et al

For the mini-series
—THE LAST DANCE—
my gratitude to ESPN
is maximum

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Photoverio #479: Swimming, Clown-Face Flora

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He made

me laugh

© Oliverio

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Nightmare Medicine With Hobbes Quote + Geography Lesson

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GEORGE WILL

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is  here 

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Photoverio #478: Long Beach Fire Station

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Fire Station 2

We Salute You

© Oliverio

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Photoverio #477: Stacked

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© Oliverio

Staircase Flowers

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Four Belated Appreciations From William Sydney Porter

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At birth, his name was
William Sydney Porter 

You can't appreciate
HOME
till you've left it
MONEY
till it's spent
YOUR WIFE
till she's joined
a woman's club
nor
OLD GLORY
till you see it hanging
on a broomstick on the shanty
of a consul in a foreign town
***

O HENRY

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Photoverio #476: Orchid With Pointer

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© Oliverio
***
 Figurini Cheerleader

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Alter Ego Sidewalk Symphony Jazz Duet

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To promote

the Calvin Edwards Jazz Duo,

the Figurini Brothers staged

a sidewalk concert yesterday 
in Long Beach

© Oliverio

Sally Streamer assisted
with the staging of the event

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Tweeting Toward Bethlehem

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FRANK BRUNI
***


The next
GoFather/Trump
page is  here

If you are curious
about the title,
click there 

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Rest In Peace, Regis Philbin

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REGIS PHILBIN
born: August 25, 1931
died: July 25, 2020

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A Baseball Story For Non-Baseball Fans

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MIKE VACARRO

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Power To The Pigeons ... (Comic Relief #3365)

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PLO
Pigeon Liberation Organization

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Photoverio #475: Select Astaire Way To Heaven

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© Oliverio
Click and Pick

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The Thirty-Seventh Page In This Series ... Rhesus Pieces

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We can't go on

meeting like this 

These Monkeys ...

The next page 
in this series
is  here  
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Echolalia + Intelligence Testing ... A Semi-Tilted Archival Page

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote
Originally written in 1999,
ECHOLALIA + INTELLIGENCE TESTING
is the copyrighted property of both
The Neither/Nor Journal
and LCSoL
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No Peanuts, No Hot Dogs, No Beer ... But Plenty Of Cardboard

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Ravined from Reality

BILL PLASCHKE

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The GREEK FOOD Quatrain ... Requiem For An LB Institution

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© Oliverio

After thirty-two years
of satisfying customers,
the Long Beach Cafe
is now
permanently closed
😥 😥 😥


The next page
in the Quatrain Series
is  here

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Simple Proof That Blacks Are Smarter Than Whites

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There are 1001 ways

to measure or test
Intelligence
but they can all
be referred to
by the acronym

—IQ—

where the Q

stands for Quotient

Simple logic tells us that
The higher the test score,

the more people

you were smarter than

***
 

An IQ of 100

means your intelligence

is "normal"

But in the post 9/11
Trump-laden Covid-sphere
"normal"

is a word that has earned
an exit visa from everyone's

vocabulary 
***

The Institute of Inane Research,

in conjunction with

the Urban Dictionary

and T.A.U.

(Thugs R' Us)

has re-branded

the acronym

IQ

to stand for

Intimidation Quotient

And if we are allowed

to state

who now has the higher

IQ

—After repeating the 

"simple logic" statement
from above:

Simple logic tells us that
The higher the test score,

the more people

you were smarter than— 

There is obviously
a racial conclusion
to be drawn
from the re-branding
of an acronym
***

QED

(See page title)

The author sincerely apologizes
to anyone who may
be offended
by this page

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A Frances Steerling Poem About Gratitude For Covid-19

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once i was bold
now i am just old
and so I am told
to not go outdoors
 

i am to stay inside
not commit "covicide"
by going outside
but what about my chores?

my food is on deliver

i am my own caregiver
 if i shake or shiver

i call it a new dance

outside: youth has no strife

old men bemoan the dead wife
others in crisis of mid-life
with them, i'll take no chance

never w/o computer or book
and i know how to cook
at myself i sometimes look
and i like what i see

i talk and joke to myself

—always words on the shelf—
(and my cute patio elf)

i just let me be

i can exercise in place
powder my face
enjoy every inch of space
be well-enough alive
 

 i sometimes sip from a flask
thru a hole in a fake mask
what more can i ask
for a man of seventy-five?

as for enforced solitude
let me tell you, dude
i have some gratitude
for this existing scene
 

i sleep and rise as i desire
go wireless or read w/o wire
avoid all the outside mire
thanks to Covid-19
***

FRANCES STEERLING

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 Footnotes

A FRANCES STEERLING POEM

ABOUT GRATITUDE FOR COVID-19

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

The next

GoFather/Steerling page

is  here

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This Is How We Began The Year Of The Corona Virus

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GREG SARGENT
Washington Post Op-Ed
 ***

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is here 

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Did OVID Know About Covid Two Thousand Years Ago ... ??? ...

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Mankind is a monster

and the ungodly times

confederate into guilt

and are sworn to crimes.

All are alike involved

in ill, and all

must by the same

relentless fury fall

≈ OVID ≈

Metamorphoses

(8 A.D.) 

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STREET ART UTOPIA #46: A Boy On The Beach

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SAYPE
***

The next page
in this series
is here 

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty-One Point Five

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To make a quatrain quoting
another when the need arises

Honesty is the most subversive
of all disguises

 ***

PAUL OLIVERIO
quoting
T-BONE BURNETT  

 

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Footnotes
The video is prefaced
by a quickly deletable advert
  

The next page
in this series
is  here

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Photoverio #474: Off-Color

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© Oliverio
Sepia Morning

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Photoverio #473: Bulldozer Beach

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© Oliverio
Gunmetal Gray Morning

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According To JC ... If Life Was Fair

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If life was fair,

Elvis would  be alive

and all the impersonators

would be dead.

JOHNNY CARSON

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When Is A BLACK FACE Comedy Undeniably Acceptable ... ??? ...

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When it is created

by twenty-four

black high school

students

Bewitched
Sisters at Heart
(12-24-70)
***


Twenty-four students
from Jefferson High School
were invited by
Elizabeth Montgomery
to the studio
filming Bewitched

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Finally: A Measurable Need For The Number GOOGOL

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Besides inspiring the name

of the most popular Search Engine

in the world,

consider the names of writers

(listed below image)

who have been GoFathered

in the very recent past

Scott Fitzgerald, Joan Didion,

Fred Allen, Ivan Turgenev,

George Carlin, Oscar Brown
Dawn Powell, Jericho Brown,
Richard Wright, Paul Oliverio
***

One Googol
is equal to
how many times
these writers
have been plagiarized

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty-One ... With Image

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To make a quatrain about 
escaping from poverty's loins

Baby needs
a new pair of coins

  ***

PAUL OLIVERIO 

 

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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

This copyrighted image 
was photographed in
2006

The next page
in this series
is  here

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If A Concrete Wall Can Wear A Mask, So Can You ... !!!

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© Oliverio

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Photoverio #472: Headless Red Shirt + Jumper + Telephone Pole

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© Oliverio
Belmont Shore Window

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty

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To make a quatrain about 
"other people" and Covid-19

Every one of them is
a potential killing machine

 ***

PAUL OLIVERIO 

 

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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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Four Images From Blues In The Night

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BLUES IN THE NIGHT
(1941)

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Footnotes
It behooves me
to quote Frances Steerling

There are two types of jazz fans:
Those who know the song
Blues in the Night
and those who know both the song
and the film it was written for

Only because of  WATCHTCM,
does this jazz fan
fit into the second category
(as of last night) 

Mr. Steerling's next page
is  here 
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HELP ... I Can't Stop Quoting This FSF-ing Man

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America is composed not

of two sorts of people but

of two frames of mind:

The first is engaged in doing

what it would like to do.

The second pretends

such things do not exist.

***

≈ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ≈
Girls Believe In Girls
(1930)
 

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Footnotes
The next GoFather/Fitzgerald
page is  here

Anyone who thinks the
Women's Liberation Movement
first became front-page news
in the Nineteen Seventies
needs to excavate
and read Fitzgerald's essay
published Ninety Years Ago
in a magazine called
Liberty 

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Twenty-Nine

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To make a quatrain about
cousins of will and won't

For every one thing you know
there's ten things you don't

 ***

PAUL OLIVERIO 

 

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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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I'll Bet The House This Russian Author Inspired George Carlin

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"It turns out there's empty space

in my suitcase and I am 

putting hay into it."

***

"That's how it is

in the suitcase of our lives:

it doesn't matter

what you stuff in

as long as there is

no empty space."

***

IVAN TURGENEV
Fathers And Sons 

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You Can Never Have Too Many FRED ALLEN QUOTES

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FRED ALLEN

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A Confessional Quatrain From A Bovine-Brained Poet

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I admit to having

the mental capacity of a cow

I never played my cards right

so why should I start now

***

NOTZO ENONYMOUSE

©©©

The next

Quatrain page

is here 

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Joan Didion Answers A Very Simple Question

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The 1975 interview is from
The Paris Review 

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If He Had Lived To Be 60, There'd Be 60 Million More Plagiarists

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
What I think and Feel at 25
(sic)
***

His next GoFather
page is  here 

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Once Upon A Time, Executive Secrets Were Told In Black + White

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 The only living witness
of the Lincoln assassination
shares his secret
with Garry Moore

I've Got A Secret
2/8/56

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When Green Meant Go [Haiku #75]

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Sometimes, I look
into her baby blue eyes
and all my lights
turn green

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Footnotes

WHEN GREEN MEANT GO

is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL


My haikus
are no longer linked together
because I did not
want to make life
too easy for our favorite thieves

But I'd risk a felony charge
if I could steal haikus from
these two guys

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