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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Thursday, October 22, 2020

© 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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