ALBERT EINSTEIN Is Uncertain About The Universe

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Two things are infinite:

The universe and human stupidity 

  And I'm not so sure 

about the universe 

 

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty-Seven

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To make a quatrain hopefully
requiring no bail

Before you can succeed,

you must know how to fail

 ***

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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The Art Of TYRELL WINSTON

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Deflateable but Interesting

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Cobwebs And Third Eyes

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When the aging process

cobwebs your youthful lust,

that is not a bust

You now sit

at the head of

a family table

and that's not sad

So many children

praise you call you

Dad

But somewhere from

the side of the table

you should be able

To use your third eye

to see what no one else

can see:

 

Hot-blooded and beautiful

let your fancy free

 

(Because no one else can see)

Her

 

Just you

and true is what 

it be

 

The lover doesn't really exist:

it is not 

adultery 

 

*** 

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

COBWEBS AND THIRD EYES

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Interrogating The Null Set

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Who you got?

Nobody

Where you find him?

Nowhere

What's he got?

Nothing

Nothing at all?

No. He's got a number

What number?

Zero

That's something

 

*** 

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

INTERROGATING THE NULL SET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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A Dollop Of Dialog From SCOTT FITZGERALD

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***

"You know,

You're a little complicated

after all"

 

"Oh no, I'm not really...

I'm just a whole lot of 

different simple people"

***

 

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

  

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Footnote

The next GoFather/Fitzgerald

page is  here

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I Cannot Believe What I Saw Last Night

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Tragedy and Celebration

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Photoverio #502: Shadowy Birds Of Paradise

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© Oliverio

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© Tattooed To My Skull © Where No One But ME Can See Them

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Everyone has photographs—

family souvenirs—

that a branding iron

has impaled upon

their memories

 

For me, one such image

is the beach that caused

my father to work 

his ass off so that

his family could have

a summer house 

on the North Shore of Long Island

 

The second image was photographed

by my father or mother

with the other looking out the window

at our lawn in Whitestone,

our winter home

 

It features their fifteen-year-old son

and eighteen-year-old daughter

 

 The latter had only ten more years

to live so that—fifty-six years hence—

the former could say

I love you Linda

and the same goes for your parents

 

Kiss them for me

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That Hazy Summer Of '71 ... The HALFen With His Screwdriver

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My co-pilot

that summer

was a mayonaisse jar:

half-vodka

half orange juice

 

But I posed

with a beer can

because the photographer

had guzzled the quart

of homemade

screwdriver

My recently-widowed mother

was still alive

  I was half-way

to orphanhood

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