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Sunday, January 31, 2021
Photoverio #529: Palm Frond Horsehead Sculpture
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| © Oliverio |
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Lousy Photograph, Number Two: MERCER MAYER And Me
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If forgetting were an art,
I'd be Van Gogh,
then forget where
my ear was
and cut off
my toe
***
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Lousy Photograph, Number One: IF ...
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| © Oliverio |
IF
profiles of
and Louis Armstrong
merged with
an image
of a rose
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Saturday, January 30, 2021
"Simply Delicious"
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
Photoverio #528: Come And Get It
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| © Oliverio |
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The DNRBTL Alternative To Censorship
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Instead of being told
we cannot read this book
or that book,
we are told
Do Not Read
Between The Lines
In other words,
whatever you read
(or hear) on your
favorite political pages,
take it at face value
AND
never question
its truth
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Footnote
THE DNRBTL ALTERNATIVE
TO CENSORSHIP
is the copyrighted property of
Lewis Carroll School of Logic
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Another BOROWITZ REPORT Exclusive
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| Read All About It |
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Vertically Speaking ... At The Risk Of Family Braggadocio
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The
first
Church
is
the
Home
***
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Photoverio #526: If You Have A Bucket List ...
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If You Have A Bucket List,
We Have The Buckets
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| © Oliverio |
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Photoverio #525: Easy Maintenance Barnyard Animals
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| © Oliverio |
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24/7 Picket Fence Library ... In Profile
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| It may be Little but it sure is Enlarged |
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Hazy Hundred-Year-Old Library + Covid-Closure Notice = 😱😱
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| 😱😱 |
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Sunday, January 24, 2021
1/22/21: Heaven Is Celebrating A Lot More Than We Are
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Because everyone there
can fully appreciate
the colossal beauty of
the [very enlargeable]
numbers below
Especially 1957:
Hammerin' Hank's MVP season
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I Forgot The Rule That I Would Never Ever Post A Shoutout
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Shoutout to everyone who can remember
their childhood phone number
but can't remember the password
they created yesterday.
***
ANDRE ANONYMOUS
(Lifted from a pinterista)
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Neither Is It A Healthy Exercise ... 31/17ths Of A Haiku
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Whether you live
in country or city
It is never going
to be pretty
If you swim laps
in the pool of self-pity
***
PAUL OLIVERIO
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Footnote
For a not-so-obvious variation
of this theme,
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Saturday, January 23, 2021
The Difference Between Letters Of The Alphabet ... And Numbers
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There are useless letters
and letters which could be
dispensed with
What separate functions do
d and t perform?
They have almost the same sound
The same goes for b and p
...
They are calligraphic folderol
Look at the digits:
there are no two which serve
the same function:
4 is 4 and 7 is 7
And consider the beauty
with which the 4 and the 7 form
this thing which is represented by 11
Now double and you have 22
Multiply it by itself. It makes 484,
and so on
But where the perfection is greatest
is in the use of zero
The value of zero is, in itself, nothing
But what is the function
of this negative symbol?
To augment
A 5 alone is a 5
Place 00 with it, it is 500
Thus, that which has no value
makes great value
something which doubled letters don't do,
for I approve as much
with one p as with two p's
***
Dom Casmurro
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Friday, January 22, 2021
Regarding Inauguration Day, 2020
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We are in the afterglow
of a luxurious fatigue:
there was no violence
in response to
the Inauguration
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| Congratulations, President Biden |
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Vaguely Speckled Midnight Colors Of My Backyard
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Photoverio #524: Dog Head, Dog Whisperer + Black-Shirt Dude
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| © Oliverio |
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If Martin Luther King Were Alive In the Year 2020 ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Regarding An Appropriate Honor On Martin Luther King Day
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| ≈ Ribbon-Cutting Day for Black Music ≈ |
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
This Should Have Been Posted Sixteen Days Ago
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2020
A Year In Review
by
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Your Brain's Functions [Haiku #76]
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If you want
your brain's functions
to keep out of danger,
avoid anger
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Footnotes
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Footnotes
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
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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Saturday, January 16, 2021
Photoverio #523: A Rose For Emily Carol
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| © Oliverio |
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Three Of A Kind ... The Gnarly Tree
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| The Gnarl |
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| The Erection |
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| The Base |
© Oliverio (3x)
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Friday, January 15, 2021
MACHADO dE ASSIS Knew Sam and Grace
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| *** |
If conjugal felicity could be
compared to the grand prize
in a lottery, they had won it
with the ticket they
purchased together
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
A Sample From A Phototgrapher EVERYONE Should Know
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| Why isn't she better known? |
Four Years Before The Dream Came True
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| 2012 |
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Double Dose Advice From A Doubled FAUCI
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| (Borowitz Exclusive) |
Poeticizing Another MACHADO (This One Is About Fertilizer)
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Instead of a coffin,
you should often
know the difference
between the two.
If you want her heart
instead of her shoe
⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇
VICE IS
OFTEN
THE MANURE
OF VIRTUE
⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆
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| (1839-1908) |
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I Can Always Fall Back On THE FALL ... One Of The Multiples*
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An addiction
to silk underwear
does not
necessarily imply
that one's feet
are dirty
***
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* Footnotes *
This was my fifth and most satisfying read
of Camus' novel.
Other "Multiples" in the novel series include
Great Gatsby (6), Catcher in the Rye (9),
Huckleberry Finn (4), Portnoy's Complaint (5),
Wicked Pavillion (6), Cat's Cradle (7),
Sartre's Nausea (7)
...
There are three "10-Reads"
in the short story series:
Perfect Day For Banana Fish,
Thank You, Ma'am,
and
Kafka's Metamorphosis.
Gentlemen and Gentlewomen,
start your search engines
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AintGotNo IsNo Puzzle To Me ... Neither Is The Deleteable Advert
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| NINA SIMONE |
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Slicing, Dicing, And Cataloging The FIFTIES And SIXTIES
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| BILLY JOEL |
with apologies to
Harry Truman, Doris Day,
Red China, Johnny Ray
Marilyn Monroe
and Joe DiMaggio
...
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Absenting My Better Half ... Whenever I Hear Music
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Whenever I hear music
—when time gives me the chance—
wherever I am,
I've got to dance
Sitting, walking, or talking
on a chair, sidewalk, or street
I am one big ball
of happy feet
Ethel or muddy waters
Beethoven or james brown
I get on up
or I get down
Dion with
or without the belmonts
my feet are
gushing fonts
But feet is just code
for my body's mother lode
(dem dancin' steps mostly
are not visibaly showed)
To mozart, I kowtow
with a swimming eye brow
For dylan, I am hip
with silent gyrating lip
In the car,
all the singers
make me dance
with ten fingers
Be bop, doo wop, hip hop
or patsy cline
my internal dance floor
is real estate divine
Elvis, chuck berry,
motown, the stones
always set me free
and I am truly
***
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Footnotes
ABSENTING MY BETTER HALF
WHENEVER I HEAR MUSIC
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
This page was orchestrated
by Linda Oliverio
b. 10/11/46
d. 6/25/75
This page was approved
by her parents
I can clearly see
this holy trinity
dancing to
Thus,
my next
BEATLES page
is here
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Saturday, January 9, 2021
The Fortieth Page In This Series ... Bird Song
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We can't go on
meeting like this
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*** The next page in this series is here | |||
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Semi-Censored JONATHON RICHMAN On The Sappho Steps
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| I was dancing in the _____ bar |
Thursday, January 7, 2021
It's Dark And Hazy Because I'm Lazy + Ego-Crazy BUT Humble
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1964
Larry, Carl, Barry
Perry, Paul, Terry
posing for the yearbook
class picture
was our
Home Room teacher
Only six boys
are in this
fifty-six year-old image
With a Sal Mineo
scar on my face,
I cropped out
everyone else
out of humility
Even the best-looking
of the rest
was a mediocrity
in comparison
to the brown-eyed
handsome boy
with his Sal Mineo
scar
It's bad enough
I make
Larry, Carl, Barry
Perry and Terry
Look like
Pillsbury Dough Boys
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The Legacy Of Donald Trump
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021
A Flower By Another Name ... Is Worth Listening To
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I am known as
a Bird of Paradise
BUT
you can call me
Gossip Gertie
and
I want to tell
you
about the palm trees
that populate
Long Beach
and elsewhere:
They are nothing but
oversized toothpicks
with frilly peaks
and a goiter problem
***
©©©
[image and text]
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The Hot Stove
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The hot stove
and the cold floor
under the coffered ceiling
with snow-flaked windows
is
warm to the touch
with
it
tastes better with
a hot bowl of oatmeal
***
©©©
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Photoverio #522: Don't Tuch It (Sic)
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Leaf It Alone
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
The Ultimate Ambassador
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The sun
is the ambassador
of nature
About this quote,
I'll say nothing,
of course,
except to identify
the source
HINT:
we all know what gas is
the quote is from
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Photoverio #521: Five Degrees Fahrenheit
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| © Oliverio |
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Monday, January 4, 2021
I'm Not Expecting You To Know Who Owns The Zebra
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Sixty-nine years ago,
what has become
a world-famous
logic puzzle
was published.
Life International
was housed
in Rockefeller Center
and the riddle
was a big topic
of discussion
in the
Sacred Cellar.
That is,
the watering hole
of the restaurant
adjacent to
the world-famous
skating rink
The watering administrator—
otherwise known as
the head bartender—
GUARANTEED
the imbibers
he would have the solution
the next day.
His audience included
Time-Life journalists,
photographers and executives.
There were
NBC producers and TV personalities,
Shell Oil executives
and other A-list personages.
Collectively,
they were non-plussed
by this
multi-ethnic,
multi-cryptic
multi-information
mystery. They bet the bartender
that it
COULD NOT
be done.
The bartender's name
was Sam
and this story
is continued
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