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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Saturday, March 20, 2021

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
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