NEIL HOOS: The Sun From My Window Just Kissed ...

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My photograph of Marilyn

The Monroe Doctrine

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Is That Donald Trump In The Window? (Comic Relief #3576)

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A full moon

and an empty head

GARY LARSON

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL ... But More Importantly ...

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Be as Safe

as Humanly Possible

 

😀😀😀

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When Creator Was Reminded Of Gilmore Girls 20th Anniversary

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Celebrating anniversaries

is on the back burner right now.

 

You're just trying to keep people

from coughing and sneezing

in your direction.

 

AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO

 

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How The Most Powerful Country In Europe Sees Us

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DER SPIEGEL

 

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Photoverio #511: Somebody Up There Is Laughing

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Or is she smiling?

© Oliverio

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Transcription + Soft And Praiseworthy Graffiti Of A Trump Tweet

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What the world's been waiting for

😊😊😊😊

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Twump Trump Tweet 2 B Written Very Soon ... Repeated 3 Times

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When Sleepy Joe

and his Secretary of the State

and his Secretary of the Treasury

fail on the job,

they can go on the road as

Blinken, Yellin, and Nod

 

The White House is

Finally allowing

the "transition"

to begin.

 

Meanwhile,

President-elect Biden

has named Anthony Blinken

as his Secretary of State

and Janet Yellin

as his Secretary of the Treasury

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If I Wasn't Turned To Salt In 1969, I Never Will Be

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Neither tall nor small,

I was all Paul

+

ego and bravado

Hazy Days Of Summer

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Remember Her Name And Her Question: NAYEEMA RAZA

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NAYEEMA RAZA

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A Poem Inspired By A Quote From ZELDA FITZGERALD

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There is GOD

and there are many gods

There is MAN

and there are many men

There is WOMAN

and there is very many

of what 

I don't know what 

to call them

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO

The next GoFather/Fitzgerald 

page is  here

 

The third and fourth lines

paraphrase the words

of Zelda.

Unfortunately,

I cannot find 

the original source

but what she said was

When the Man

is not there,

there is always

men  

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Donald Trump's Mouth Has ALL The Symptoms Of Covid

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All it can say is 

Tweet Tweet Tweet 

Cheat Cheat Cheat 

and 

IbeyamregolvkonoolyScotogoolfnik 

Translation:

"I am the new King of Scotland 

Let's play golf"

This page is

copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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The Most Beautiful ... And ... The Most Exciting ... And ...

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MUSIC

is the most beautiful form

of Applied Math

SPORTS

are the most exciting form

of Applied Math

ART

is the most

luxuriously liquid form

of Applied Math

DANCE

is the most

obvious offspring

of this Mathematical

menage-a-trois

 

The musician,

the athlete,

and the artist

are the

biological parents

of the dancer

 

***

***

 

Once upon a time,

exactly one classroom

in the United States

was decorated

with posters of the above

"verses"

 

The posters were

hand-drawn

by the creator

of the phrases

—ME—

 

One year,

a member of the audience

begifted me

with a superior calligraphy

of the first two

"verses"

 

The member of the audience

was

MY STUDENT

 

She was given

the original poster

 

I hope and pray

that she made 

a gazillion dollars 

from her design

 

Despite the fact that

THIS PAGE 

is the copyrighted property of  

The Lewis Carroll School of Logic   

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If-Then-Therefore ... The First Poem In This Series

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If 

we are 

without contradiction

 

Then

we are 

without diction

 

Without diction,

there is no dictionary

***

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

 

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Footnote

IF-THEN-THEREFORE

...

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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A Dark Poem Inspired By CHEKHOV's Black Monk

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We abuse the word

genius

because of vanity

 

We need high praise

for the self or the other

and yearn for such words

from father or mother

 

True Genius does not

begin with vanity

but it may end

with insanity

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO  

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In Certain Complex Situations ...

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In certain  complex situations,

perfect honor and fair dealing

were out of the question

 ***

ROBERTSON DAVIES

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Photoverio #510: Senior Citizen Of The Floral Community

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But it still has personality

© Oliverio

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Black Youths Like DENNIS RICHMOND

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DENNIS RICHMOND

 

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The Thirty-Eighth Page In This Series ... Heavy Metal

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We can't go on

meeting like this 

© Oliverio

***

The next page 
in this series
is  here  
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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty-Eight

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To make a quatrain about 
where and when to quote

 

When in doubt use 

somebody's words of note

  

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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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Gargoyles And Anti-Gargoyles

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Gargoyles are grotesque figurines that frighten evil spirits

Beyonce and Matthew McConaughey are NOT grotesque

 

They are two of the BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

 

They are Anti-Gargoyles 

who do not keep away 

your evil spirits:

 

They allow YOU to have the evil spirit

of an Inferiority Complex

because YOU are not

one of the Beautiful People

 

Unless, of course you think

an inferiority complex

is a gift from God 

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO 

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Photoverio #509: A Spectral Cat

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A spectral cat and his scratch pad iPad

© Oliverio

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The Nation Celebrates...

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    DAVID BOROWITZ

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The Thing About Performance Art ...

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***

The thing about Performance Art

is that it is only effective

when everyone knows

it is a performance

***

JAMELLE BOUIE

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Insurance Companies Call This ... DIVINE TERRORISM

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  An ACT OF GOD

Long Beach, March 10, 1944

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Advice From LORELAI GILMORE LAUREN GRAHAM

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LAUREN GRAHAM

 

But life doesn't often

spell things out for you

or give you 

what you want it,

exactly when you want it,

otherwise it wouldn't

be called life,

it would be called

vending machine

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Photoverio #508: Black And White And Spotted And Satiated

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The BARKFISH has eaten the Stickman's head + one arm

© Oliverio

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Rest In Peace With The Ultimate FINAL JEOPARDY

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                                                                                  Answer =

                                                                                            

                                                                                 Question =

                                                                                      

ALEX TREBECK

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Photoverio #507: Aerial Sport

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Aerial Lacrosse Stick

© Oliverio

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55 Years Before Abdul Jabbar Created The Previous Page

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On January 31, 1965

there was 

a moment of silence

at St. Luke's Church

in Whitestone, New York.

 

The Priest was a graduate

of Power Memorial High School.

 

His Alma Mater's 71-game

winning streak ended

the night before.

 

The Power Memorial basketball team

featured the greatest prep school athlete

in America: LEW ALCINDOR.

I had already mourned

the loss by boycotting

the homemade waffles

my Mother had cooked

that morning but 

I surreptitiously ate 

an O Henry candy bar

in my Father's car

on the way to church.

 

However, I did NOT boycott

the free wafer served during

Holy Communion

despite having chocolate-stained teeth.      

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Poetry And Journalism With Tongue-In-Cheek

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Two Catholic Presidents And Two Homynyms ... Plus 1 Copyright

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President Kennedy gave us

Camelot

***

President Biden gives us

Kamala

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Photoverio #506: BottleBrush With Propellers

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© Oliverio

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It All Begins With LOVE

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The King James Brown Bible

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Sultry Sally ShadowFlower ... Sings For Her Adoring Fans

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Midnight At The Oasis

© Oliverio

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I May Have A Future: Polling In The Trans-Gender Community

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Photoverio #505: The Gingerbread House

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Looks good enough to eat

© Oliverio

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Comic Relief #10-31-20: Halloween Vanity

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JOHNNY DINAPOLI

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Early Voting Results

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ANDY BOROWITZ

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The 153rd Bullet: The Well-Intentioned Roadblock

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The 24/7 pursuit

of knowledge 

leaves no time for

wisdom

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Footnote

THE 153rd BULLET
is the copyrighted property of

the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

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Photoverio #504: Manny, Moe, And Jack At The Jetty

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© Oliverio 2020

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Victor Voteman + The Book Of The Mouth Club ... Chapter One

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© Oliverio ©

We are living

NOT in the dark ages

but in the dark shadows

of democracy

where the future

is in the stranglehold

of doubt 

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Curvaceous, Imperfect Image Of Hasidic Accuracy

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DAVID MAMET

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Photoverio #503: Too Misty To Be Precise ... Mystical Morning

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© Oliverio

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