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| The Monroe Doctrine |
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
Is That Donald Trump In The Window? (Comic Relief #3576)
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A full moon
and an empty head
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| GARY LARSON |
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL ... But More Importantly ...
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Be as Safe
as Humanly Possible
😀😀😀
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
When Creator Was Reminded Of Gilmore Girls 20th Anniversary
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is on the back burner right now.
You're just trying to keep people
from coughing and sneezing
in your direction.
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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?
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| © Oliverio |
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
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
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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Monday, November 23, 2020
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
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| 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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Saturday, November 21, 2020
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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Friday, November 20, 2020
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
***
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Footnote
IF-THEN-THEREFORE
...
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
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
***
© PAUL OLIVERIO
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
In Certain Complex Situations ...
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In certain complex situations,
perfect honor and fair dealing
were out of the question
***
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Photoverio #510: Senior Citizen Of The Floral Community
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But it still has personality
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| © Oliverio |
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Black Youths Like DENNIS RICHMOND
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| DENNIS RICHMOND |
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Sunday, November 15, 2020
The Thirty-Eighth Page In This Series ... Heavy Metal
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We can't go on
***
The next page
in this series
is here
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in this series
is here
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Saturday, November 14, 2020
To Make A Quatrain ... Number Thirty-Eight
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To make a quatrain about
where and when to quote
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
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 |
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| 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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Friday, November 13, 2020
Photoverio #509: A Spectral Cat
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A spectral cat and his scratch pad iPad
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| © 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
***
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Insurance Companies Call This ... DIVINE TERRORISM
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| 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
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| © Oliverio |
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Rest In Peace With The Ultimate FINAL JEOPARDY
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Answer =
Question =
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| ALEX TREBECK |
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Photoverio #507: Aerial Sport
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Aerial Lacrosse Stick
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Monday, November 9, 2020
55 Years Before Abdul Jabbar Created The Previous Page
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On January 31, 1965
there wasa moment of silence
at St. Luke's Church
in Whitestone, New York.
The Priest was a graduate
of Power Memorial High School.
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 |
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Saturday, November 7, 2020
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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Friday, November 6, 2020
Sultry Sally ShadowFlower ... Sings For Her Adoring Fans
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| © Oliverio |
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I May Have A Future: Polling In The Trans-Gender Community
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Thursday, November 5, 2020
Photoverio #505: The Gingerbread House
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Looks good enough to eat
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| © Oliverio |
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020
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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Sunday, November 1, 2020
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
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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Victor Voteman + The Book Of The Mouth Club ... Chapter One
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| © Oliverio © |
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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Photoverio #503: Too Misty To Be Precise ... Mystical Morning
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| © Oliverio |
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