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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Monday, May 31, 2021

Fable About The Greatest Actor Guillotined By The Me-Too-Istas

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Kevin Spacey
got too spicy
with a dish
in 
our favorite restaurant
 
He will never
eat there again
***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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Photoverio #578: Violet Family Of Three

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Photoverio #577: Jacaranda Sky

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With deleteable advert
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Saturday, May 29, 2021

The Drawbacks Of Two-Dimensional Cities

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Being fenced-in
with 
a tear in the fabric
© Photoverio #576.5
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Quackheads (Comic Relief #3869)

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GARY LARSON
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Friday, May 28, 2021

Mathematical Poet Tree ... Sic Sic Sic

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Gee, I am a tree
with brown eyes
and big bark
for what it's worth

My roots cling
to Mother Earth
© Oliverio
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Photoverio #576: The Sky Over Route 66

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*** © Oliverio ***
 
*** After a quickly deleteable advert ***
Nat King Cole recites his 
 automotive geography
lesson

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Thursday, May 27, 2021

Song Lyrics For Sammy With The Quire Girls ... Meter Be Damned

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Sidecar Sammy
 with Annie behind the wheel
barreled down the road
'til her tires peeled
and so did he

She would tell him
when and where to wait
then give him
an expiration date
to set him free
 
Sidecar Sammy
sidetracked, sad, but saucy
didn't mind the
being bossy
of a hot SHE
 
Sidecar Sammy
 with Sammy behind the wheel
pulling double duty
until another cutie
gave him a feel
pretending to be real
 
Pretending to be real
(as far as Sammy could see)
was what he preferred
to reality
 
It was all
a matter of context
until the girl said
NEXT
 
 
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Footnotes
SONG LYRICS For SAMMY
WITH THE QUIRE GIRLS
METER BE DAMNED
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

This page has been approved
by my better half

The Institute of Inane Research
has determined that
the estate of
Big Maybelle  will not serve
Mr. Oliverio with
 a copyright violation
 
That hyperlink has
a quickly deleteable advert
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

A Re-Incarnation Joke About Long-Time Married Women

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Why do so many
of these women
get re-incarnated
as elevator operators
or demolition experts?
 
Because,
regarding their husbands,
 they knew how to push
his buttons
and make him explode
 
 
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Footnote
A RE-INCARNATION JOKE
ABOUT LONG-TIME
MARRIED WOMEN
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Monday, May 24, 2021

Photoverio #575: The Flower Song

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and 
the Deletabella Adverto
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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Twisting With The Whim

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By twisting life to follow
accidental and devious paths,
one might perhaps
find some use
for accidental and devious
knowledge
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Photoverio #574: Architectural Crowning

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© Oliverio
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The Forty-Fourth Page In This Series ... Rim-Shot

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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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Thursday, May 20, 2021

The MONDRIAN SPACE That No One In Long Beach Knows

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Alamitos/4th Street
Southwest Corner, 90802
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STEVE BEZOS' Piggy Bank Can Solve The Homeless Problem

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AMAZON
is the death knell
of the big box store

Steve Bezos' s profits
from Amazon
are one dime
every one-millionth
of a second

The death knell
of the big box store
is the death knell
of the shopping mall

And the landscape 
of America
is fraught with these
architectured
anomaliess

Each and every
cob-webbed mall
is a vast ghost town
housing nothing
but empty storefronts

There are as many
of those dead store fronts
as there are
homeless people
in the fruited plains
and severed cities
of
THE GREATEST COUNTRY
ON EARTH
 
Unless,
we have already
exported that title
to China
or India
 
Therefore, 
Mr. Bezos,
the solution
to housing the homeless
is in the palm of your hands
!!!
 
Convert all of those
cob-webbed
shopping malls
and ghostly storefronts
to residences
for the homeless
 
Whether you own 
the properties
the malls occupy
is of little or no concern
 
You have much too much
wealth and power
for anyone
to dispute
your actions
 
And these newly-housed
homeless individuals
or families
will have laws to abide by:
 
They may not ever leave
their homes
unless it is to picnic
in the parking lots
that double
(or triple)
the size
of 
the malls
 
Which will then shed
their cob-webs
while providing
a roof over the heads
of those
severely lacking
in the frequency
of sleeping under a roof
 
At the same time,
all the other roads
and streets
and communities
of our fruited plains
and severed cities
will no longer
be peopled
with homeless vagrants
to uglify them.
***
 
© PAUL OLIVERIO © 

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It Had To Happen

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The protesters 
protested
 
The counter-protesters 
counter-protested
 
Both did so
loudly and vigorously
yet peacefully
 
Not one punch
was thrown

The only casualty
was Mr. Clarity

Dead and gone

The protesters said
“We didn’t need him"

The counter-protesters said
“Neither did we”

Both agreed
they only needed
their communal beliefs
their posters
their slogans
their costumes
their reefer
their hatreds

Both agreed they needed
their masterminds
with the mealy-mouthing
miasma

We do not need Mr. Clarity
nor his sideswiping wife, Truth


The protesters
and the counter-protesters
then lunched together

No one protests
a picnic
***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote
IT HAD TO HAPPEN
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

DJ Sad-liverio #428571: Mama Said

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During a deleteable advert
JACK JOHNSON
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

This Is Not A Photograph ...

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It is a painting
Leon Roulette
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Eternal Truth From A 19th Century Poet

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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
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A Simple Wish From A Simplified Man On His 72nd Birthday

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I want to go to
the Anger Bank
and deposit 
all my anger
in 
a safe-deposit box

I don't need it anymore
BUT
my not-so-simple wish
is to hear
sing my new anthem
without any deleteable
advert
 
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Sunday, May 16, 2021

She Said She'd Get Me A Boat For My Birthday

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© Oliverio
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DJ Sad-liverio #285714: Natural Lawbreakers

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PATSY CLINE
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Hazy And Honky Honey

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Remembering My Favorite Dentist On Eve Of 72nd Birthday

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Explained in  comment below
© Oliverio
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Photoverio #573: My Head Tree 'Tis Of Thee

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2nd Alamitos 90802
© Oliverio
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Photoverio #572: The Holy Moment For Getting Gassed

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Broadway Temple 90814
© Oliverio
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Friday, May 14, 2021

The 157th Bullet ... Including The Magazine

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That time changes things
rates 99.99%
on the truth-o-meter

The only thing
time does not
change is
Time 

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Footnotes
THE 157th BULLET
is the copyrighted property of
the Lewis Carroll School of Logic
 
Written with  gratitudinal reference
to 
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Thirty-Six Year-Old Shoes Sell For $152,500

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Read all about it
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Nightmare Mitch Grants A Wish (Tragi-Comic Relief #3845)

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BILL BRAMHALL
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With Stacey Abrams Help, They Sure Did (Comic Relief #3844)

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CLAY BENNETT
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Hold The Seventy-Two Virgins ... And The Hyperlinks

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Exactly one week from today,
I will be seventy-two years-old

The first acknowledgement
of that birthday
was a document from
DMV

My driver's license
needed to be renewed
but I was given the option
to do so entirely on-line

Five attempts to do so yesterday
proved frustrating
to the fifth degree
 
The alternative,
physically appearing
at a DMV office
with written test
and driver's test,
was as welcome
as bunions 
and burnt toast
 
But sixth time is a charm
and after an early morning
phone call,
the deal is done
thanks to a woman
named Dawn
who had more patience
in her fingernail
than I've had
in my entire life
 
Despite fifteen minutes
of wait-time
on the phone,
7.2 stupid qustions.
 720 keystrokes
and a nominal payment,
my driver's license
has been renewed
and 
I am a very 
hap-pre birthday boy
 
Who
would like to give
a bouquet of gratitude
to a DMV employee
named Dawn  
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Sunday, May 9, 2021

A Recent Discovery By The Institute Of Inane Research

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With funding from 
the Cole Porter School of Music History,
lyrics from  a 1930-ish folk song 
have been discovered
but they are incomplete
and the Institute requests 
YOU or anyone you know
complete them:
 
 
He was only a dot in her roll book
until he fixed her flat tire
after serving detention
in her classroom
 
Gym shorts and long division
led him to that fateful decision
now all he gets is derision
from my friends
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Footnote
A RECENT DISCOVERY
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
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GARY LARSON And Me ... Page One

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GARY LARSON



PAUL OLIVERIO

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Celestial Summit Conference

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Where Up meets Down,
City meets Town

Where Day meets Night,
Wrong meets Right

Where East meets West,
Worst meets Best
***
 
 
 
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Footnote
CELESTIAL SUMMIT CONFERENCE
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Regarding The Education Of HENRY ADAMS And Everyone Else

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Politics
has always been
the systematic organization
of hatreds
***
 
 
 
The next Henry Adams quote
is  here
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Friday, May 7, 2021

If 300-Year-Old Churches Were 3-Year-Old Children ...

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...
They would sing
in competing choirs:
 
My spires are higher
than your spires
👼👼👼

 
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Thursday, May 6, 2021

Happy 90th Birthday To Willie Mays ... My First Super-Hero

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Once Upon A Time, Supreme Evil Was Equal To IDI AMIN

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BLAZE FOLEY

 
"Springtime in Uganda"
hyperlink has
quickly deleteable 
advert
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Here Is An Example ... #142857

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Here is an example
of faulty design:
When the light
at the end of the tunnel
is a Stop Sign
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The next page
in this series
is  TBD
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

She Said ... I Knew You Had A Secret Lover

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© Photoverio #571.5
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Photoverio #571: Between Two Walls ...

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... with bountiful branching and fanciful colors
© Oliverio
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Between The Hand And The Cloud ... And Thin White Lines

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Ninety-Nine Year-Old LandLord Of Monkey Manor

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Both hyperlinks have
quickly deleteable adverts  
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I Hope This Is An Optical Illusion

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!!!
© Photoverio #570.5
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Photoverio #570: Architectural Summit Conference

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© Oliverio
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I Traded This Image For A Bag Of Broccoli

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A Paltry Pair of Pears
 
© Photoverio #569.5
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