I Repeat Myself With A Dash Of BG Color And KILLER JOE

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I've said it many times before

and I will say it again:

 

There is not now

now will there ever be

a greater documentary

about JAZZ than

BUT

this image of

A Great Day In Harlem

doubles as the home page

for Benny Golson

and 

this page 

would not exist

if I had not been 

in my man-cave

with my headphones

listening to

the magnificent music

Mr. Golson created

in conjunction

with the man

at the peak of the pyramid:

Art Farmer

 

Naturally,

the last link

(and only the last link)

commences

with an advert

but 

the to-die-for 

killer jazz 

it links to is 

entitled

KILLER JOE

 

😎😎😎 

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FunnyVerio #857142: In Honor Of Women's History Month

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Blossom Dearie

Quick-delete advert precedes the Anthem 

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The Forty-Third Page In This Series ... Vertically Wired

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We can't go on

meeting like this

© Oliverio

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The next page 
in this series
is  here 

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Morning Becomes Eclectic

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Morning

pulled the sheets

up

over her eyes

and the sky

gave her

no reason

to do

otherwise

But then

I served her coffee

in bed

and the day began

in Long Beach,

California

With her telling me

about her dream:

Being in Coney Island

ITALwhere she was born

sixty-nine years ago

All because

of a youTube video

of

Walking New York

***

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

©©© 

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Who Drinks The Water? Who Owns The Zebra? The Epilogue

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A story was told

about a very famous

logic riddle

It began  here

so please go there

and it will take you

a while to read

 

 

I will begin the epilogue,

upon your return

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***

Welcome back

 

 

1.

When I refer to Mrs. CarPeo

as "my smarter half"

it is a proven fact:

 

I presented the riddle to her

in 2013

 

She had never seen it before

but she solved it

within a half-hour

 

 

2.

The original riddle

(created in 1962)

is about five men

and references 

five brands of cigarettes

 

I was delighted to find

a website 

that updated the riddle

without altering its' logic

but removing the taboo smokes.

 

It also  included women

in the hypotheses

 

 

3.

If anyone has ever seen

a variation of 

ITALWho drinks the water

about five Rolling Stones

(including Brian Jones)

and dangerous drugs,

(plus excessive alcohol)

please let me know:

 

I created it

fifty years ago

and lost track of it

forty-five years ago

 

 

4.

About my father

invading my pants

with five twenty dollar bills:

 

That was not a unique experience

for him

 

Whenever we visited

Aunts and Uncles,

my cousins would routinely find

dollar bills

in their school books

or a roll of quarters

in their dresser drawers

 

They may have suspected 

Uncle Sam as the source

but I didn't confirm that 

until years after his death

***

 

Thank you for reading this

 

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Tight-Lipped And Poker-Faced ... For TOWNES VAN ZANDT

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The sun splattered
across the table

 

It was 98.6 degrees
with no shade
from the trees

 

Their leaves had fallen

so had their interest

 

Birds flew by

without notice

 

The sky was elsewhere

 

But the sun splattered

98.6 degrees 

 and I was packing heat:
 

The same temperature
inside my skin
as outside

 

We played

with a living

breathing deck

 

And tequila shots

Tight-lipped
and poker-faced,

I held three talking cards
 

Two said YES
one said NO
 

I flipped the NO
and it said maybe

I flipped the maybe
and it said YES
 

It was a winning hand
every bet was mine
 

The pot sparkled
with sunshine
 

Life was good

maybe

***

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

©©©

 

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Photoverio #558: The Junior Pirate Has Landed ... 😱😱😱

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© Oliverio

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CarPeo Set Piece #86: There Was A Halo Over My Head

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© Mrs. CarPeo

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Photoverio #557: Bleached Memory Of A Pre-Covid Annual Event

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Long Beach

Halloween Dog Parade

(2018)

© Oliverio

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Photoverio #556: Fenced-In

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© Oliverio 2015

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Family Portrait In Need Of A Hosing

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Long Beach Street Art

VONS Alley, 90802

 

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Footnote

The next page

in the Street Art Series

is TBD

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Photoverio #556: Sandskrit

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© Oliverio

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Four Generations Of My Family + 4,000 Memories Of Harlem

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One Grandfather 

was the iceman

for many of the hotspots

on this map

The other Grandfather 

custom-tailored suits

for Duke Ellington

 

My Grandmothers'

 millinery business

and meatballs were rewarded

with free passes to the Cotton Club

 

Their sons and daughters

danced wherever 

there were dance floors

 

But I am the only one

from the third generation

to dance in his own classroom

 

The generation after me

featured the only Oliverio

to live in Sugar Hill

 

I will always remember

his wall-to-wall posters of Malcolm X,

John Kennedy and Kurt Vonnegut

 

All four generations 

of  Oliverios and Anastasios

had a grand time in Harlem

and then some

 

Gentle readers:

start your search engine

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A Lower-Case Poem Named For A BO DIDDLEY Song

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when i wanted to see

what my future would be

i did not have the eyes

to see

 

so i borrowed someone else's

to view what

health and wealth is

 

nothing was mine

it was all his

 

there were no furs

they were all hers

 

then i went to the vision store

where i had never been

before

 

and they gave me

a new pair of eyes

but i did not like

the size

 

i got a blindfold

like the wise

man who used a lantern

but it did burn

like a scalding urn

 

and, in truth,

it burned my finger

so i became a gunslinger

 

which was not

a smart choice

though it gave me a voice

 

to speak out for

those who are blind

but out of their mind

 

yet people are now kind

and life is

looking up

since they gave me

a gold-plated

tin cup

 

 if you now click

on the link

just think

—it won't hurt—

to tolerate the 

five-second deletable 

advert

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

©©©

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When The It Meant Intellectual Rather Than Sexual

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All studies have

a common bind of

union and intercourse

with one another

***

VITRUVIUS

 

(born ≈70 BC)

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Photoverio #555: "It's The Bite! It's The Bark!"

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 "It's the Botanical Palmfish!"

© Oliverio

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DJ-FunniVerio #714285: Tummy-Yummy Sweet Jesus

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TOM WAITS

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Photoverio #554: Sepia Lawn

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© OLIVERIO

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Photoverio #553: Bulldozed Beach

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© OLIVERIO

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To Make A Quatrain ... Quoting MACHADO DE ASSIS

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To make a quatrain about  

financial health

  

 Hope is

the poor man's wealth

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Footnotes

The Machado de Assis quote

is from a short story entitled

Terpsichore

 
The next page
in this series
is  here

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Another Quote From DAVID MAMET

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DAVID MAMET

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Footnotes

Another quote from Mamet is  here

 

His name is pronounced MAM-et

with the a 

sounding like the  a

in apple

and the second syllable

rhymes with yet

 

For fans of  W.G. Sebold,

this book reads like 

   Sebold-with-attitude   

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In The Darkest Hour Of Our Language ...

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Sometimes,

the words

I love you

means

I love manipulating you

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Footnote

IN THE DARKEST HOUR

OF OUR LANGUAGE

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Cruz Control ... Why Would Anyone Want To Eliminate Poverty?

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ANDY BOROWITZ

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Photoverio #552: Bird Of Paradise Having An Orgasm

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© Oliverio

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I Didn't See It Coming A Poem With The Ink Still Wet

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I didn't see it coming

but then it was gone

I thought I was a winner

but it was a con

I don't know where I'm going

but I'm already there

I can't hold my tongue

all I do is swear

I don't know what I'm saying

but I said it anyway

in other words, it's

just another day

But I do know what I'm doing

and this is so:

I'll just post

another  Photoverio

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

I DIDN'T SEE IT COMING

A POEM WITH THE INK STILL WET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

It was completed

while it was being posted

In an age

when everything

is written on a computer

or mobile device,

"The ink still wet"

is an anachronism

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The Forty-Second Page In This Series ... Courting

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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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Monet And My Home For Six Years (1975-1981)

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The House on Orient Hill

"© Oliverio"

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Androcles + The Lion Updated (Comic Relief #3743)

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Andrew Cleeze and the Thug

GARY LARSON

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The United States Cannot Be A Very Smart Country

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Intelligence has no chance

in a culture where

you cannot say in public

"I hate Latinos"

or 

"I hate Blacks"

or 

"I hate Italians"

But it is

perfectly acceptable

to say

"I hate Math"

Intelligence requires hearing

two sides of a story

but that takes too long

for most people 

who need that time

to point fingers

of rage and righteousness

as their media of choice

directs them

***

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

©©©

 

 

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Footnotes

This idea was stated somewhere

in the GodFather Trilogy

about 3000 pages ago.

 

A quick example

of the stranglehold

on intelligence is that

people will quickly interpret

what I said above

as racist

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Photoverio #551: Conference In A Blue Mood

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The Master Raindrop

and his Subordinates

© Oliverio

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Photoverio #550: Bleached, Fenced And Plowed

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© Oliverio

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Forty-Four ... w/ Captioned Image

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To make a quatrain about  

the oldest mask we've got

 

Tragedy is universal

Comedy is not

Mask of Comedy + Tragedy

 

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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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A Hazy Happy Birthday #105

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Exactly fifty years ago today,

I telephoned him

to say

Happy Birthday, Dad

It was the last time

we spoke,

on terra firma

But after all these years,

he still looks pretty good

 

SAM OLIVERIO

b. March 11, 1916

d. March 16, 1971

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None Will Open But I Am Flattered Nevertheless

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All of the websites

in this image 

are related to

Paul Oliverio's

Godfather of Math Trilogy

I never granted permission

to any of them

 

The three sites

suffixed with .ru

are from Russia

 

So be it

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Photoverio #549: Bleached Beach With Showerheads + Street

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© Oliverio

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Photoverio #548: A Welcome Guest

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© Oliverio

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For The Birdman Of Razmataz

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Forty-Three

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To make a quatrain about

reversing those of high station

  

Forget re-incarnation

think re-inCASTRATION

   

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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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I Am Shame And Shame I Am

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I am Shame

and Shame I am

but not for eating

green eggs and ham

I have egg on my face

and shame in my prolix

for images

not in your rolodix

All I wanted was

words for fun

but liberal buzz [saw]

has me under the gun

 

What's good for the goose

is good for the gender

but the Zeuss

caused a fender-bender

 

I'll make that "fenda benda"

and live happily

if such words I senda

to da Urban Dictionary

 

I'll write more silly books

for the bees and the birds

with acceptable hooks 

of four-letter words 

 

Then I'll be hip, cool,

and smothered with friendship

no longer the fool

subject to censorship

 

This poem is now ending

where down is up

with my name changing

to Doctor Wha'Zup

***

 

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

©©©

 

 

Written for Theodor Zeuss Geisel 

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