The Oral Malady That Spreads With Hyper-Speed

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KRISTEN RADTKE

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Quoting JENNY ERPENBECK: Hazy But Not Nonsense

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From THE BOOK OF WORDS

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It Was Almost The Sistine Stick Figures (Comic Relief #3915)

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GARY LARSON

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I Am Looking For A Word

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I am looking for a word

It was here, somewhere

It wasn't written

on a pad

 

I emptied my pockets,

no luck

 

It wasn't between

the sofa cushions.

 

It wasn't hidden

in the refrigerator,

behind the salami

 

So I settled for two words:

The End

***

 

PAUL OLIVERIO

©©©

 

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Photoverio #588: Orgy Of The Roots Number Nine

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Or is the lead digit a Four

???

© Oliverio

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Quoting RITA MORENO: I Love Being By Myself ...

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I love being by myself

It's not hard

 

In fact, its great,

if you like 

the person 

you live with

Her career began at the age of 6

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Corona De Cristo Con Pescado Verde ... Translated Below

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© Photoverio #587.5

 

Crown of Jesus

with green fish

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Photoverio #587: In Plain View

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Plane trees

reaching for

the sky

*** © Oliverio ***

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This Is NOT The Purple Rose Of Cairo

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It is

the Purple Rose

of

Half-Land

© Photoverio #586.5

***

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The Downside Of A Rose

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The downside of a rose

© Oliverio

in full bloom

leaves no room

for thorns

but they are not

too far away

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If You Object To The Cat Sitting In This Museum Gallery...

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DENNIS TYFUS

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Photoverio #586: Who Is She Waiting For?

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Absolutely No One

© Oliverio

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DJ-Oliverio Special Addition: Another Song For Hank

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TIM HARDIN

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CarPeo Set Piece #87: Shampoo Under Wraps

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Impersonating Penguins

© Mrs. CarPeo

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Rorschach Test #44: I See A Man And A Woman

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Back-to-Back

but joined at the hip

© Oliverio

The next

Rorschach page

is  here _______________________________________________________________________________________________

DJ-Oliverio Special Edition: Leonard Cohen w/ Deleteable Advert

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Tower of Song

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The Forty-Fifth Page In This Series ... Roses Are Red, Sometimes

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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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It's The Story NOT The Quaity Of This Image ...

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It's the story,

not the quality

of this image

that matters

 

She was the reference librarian

at the Bay Shore branch

of the LBPL

and I was a boy named PAUL

who had just moved to Long Beach

 after living in Virginia

for two years

 

Not only did she buy

the original edition

of this photograph,

she gave me exhibit space

for what I ridiculously believed

were high quality pictures

I had taken of Massapequa, Mississippi, 

and the  Massanutten Mountain

 

I thought the 4M's would be

my good luck charm

 

The year was 2006 when delusion

was my constant companion

 

There was no truth to the rumor

that she lost her job because my exhibit

was a raging failure:

 

With her husband,

she retired and moved to Hawaii

 

That was something 

they had been planning to do

Long Before she met Paul

and I am eternally grateful

to Natalie ______

and all the competent staff  members

of the Long Beach Public Library

who knew her and loved her.

 

Natalie's parting words to me

were I am looking forward

to displaying this photograph

in our Honolulu library 

My husband loves its' irony

Good thing she didn't see

the re-shoot of that image

taken fifteen years after

the original

 

But I am certain that 

Natalie and Harold _____

would appreciate

the half-dozen photographs

taken that same day

and deemed worthy of posting

as the most recent Photoverio images     

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Photoverio #585: White Birching In Black + White

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© Oliverio

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Soon To Be Posted Elsewhere With Guaranteed Improvements

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© Photoverio #584.5

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The 159th Bullet: Twenty-First Century Cosa Nostra

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The only difference

between

Apple Computer Company

and

the Italian Mafia

is how they define

the word

Hardware

 

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Footnote

THE 159th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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The 158th Bullet: Sourcing That George Harrison Addendum

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Gossip is the truth

doing cartwheels

until all the facts

disappear 

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Footnotes

THE 158th BULLET
is the copyrighted property of

the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

 

***

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Literary Advice Written The Day After JFK's Inauguration

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Ask not what 

words you can write

for your country,

ask what words

should never be written

©©©

 

FRANCES STEERLING

 

 

I wrote this

in a letter to my father

during a heated correspondence

about about his employer,

Dow Chemical

 

I have long since

apologized to him

and hereby apologize to

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

for cannibalizing

his timeless quotation

 

My next page is here

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If Literary Advice For Fiction Writers Were A Train Ride ...

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The first station would be

write what you know

then onward the train

will go

 

Other stops will have

much wisdom

to show

and make your words 

glow

 

But the biggest sin

is to avoid

discipline

 

:::

:::

:::

 

Fret not the limits

of your knowledge

with or without

the institution

or college

 

There is still the tracks

to Grand Central Station

if you know best

your heart and

imagination

 ***

PAUL OLIVERIO

[90%]

+

Stephen King

[10%]

 

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Footnotes

This page is

the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

 

I am eternally grateful to

ThriftBooks.com

and my stimulus checks

 

I will have completed

Mr. King's book

On Writing

by Tuesday

 

Having read

and thoroughly enjoyed

a half dozen

of his novels,

I strongly doubt

I will ever read another

 

Re-reading Delores Clairborne

 notwithstanding

 

The hyperlink

might be prefaced

by an annoying

drop page

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Photoverio #584: Speed Limit 30

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© Oliverio

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Photoverio #583: Red Cardinal Buddies

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***

© Oliverio

 

 

Title inspired by

Mrs. CarPeo

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History Is Not What You See

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Whether you are

young or old

 

History is not what you see

it is what you are told

It all depends on

who is doing the telling

 

History is a commodity

that requires selling

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

+

RAY PETERSSEN

 

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Footnotes

HISTORY IS NOT

WHAT YOU SEE

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

 

This page is a direct descendent

of

that page

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The Wrought Irony Of 666

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It's built into our consciousness

© Photoverio #582.5

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Photoverio #582: Branch Ballet

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© Oliverio

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Photoverio #581: The First Church Steeples

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© Oliverio

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Two Kinds, Obviously

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There are obviously two kinds

of education.

One should teach us

how to make a living

and the other how to live.

***

JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS

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DJ-Oliverio Special Edition: George Harrison w/ Deleteable Advert

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***

GEORGE HARRISON

 

The next Beatles' page

is  here

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Impersonating The Beatles' Psychedelic Quadrant Image

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*** © Oliverio © ***

 

 

The next Beatles' page

is  here

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Photoverio #580: Jade Alley

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*** © Oliverio © ***

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Divine Design

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Things disappear

sometimes by design

 

Or morph like water

into wine

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Photoverio #579: Yin-Yang

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© Oliverio

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A Pizza-Vending Machine In Rome ... Whoda Thunk It?

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***

Coming soon: slot-machine funerals in Gaza Strip

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Sometimes ... An Original Poem With A Deleteable Advert

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Sometimes

I wake in the morning

and all I do

is mourn

 

Sometimes,

I wake in the evening

and all I do

is think about Eve

while Logic

is on shore leave

or is it

wearing high-heel sneakers

???

 

*** © PAUL OLIVERIO © *** 

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If You Do Not Know What IMDb Means, Skip This Page

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There is 

one and only one actor

I knew personally

whose IMDb page

lists as many

film credits

as it does

prisoner ID numbers

but I will not 

give his name

 

***

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Her Flowers Talk To Her But She Never ...

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Tells Me What They Say

© Mrs. CarPeo   ...  Set Piece #86.5

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Factoring Beyond 72 Virgins ... Belatedly and Boldly

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Mr. Oliverio

has commissioned me 

to write this page

exactly one week before

I reach that most 

spiritually numerical age

 

There is an abundance

of alternatives to

ONE man having 72 virgins

without sacrificing

any dereliction

in his behavior

 

The man can have a pair 

of 36-year-olds

because (2 x 36 = 72) 

or

He can have

three 24-year-olds

preferably blonde,

busty and hot-to-trot

or

There can be 

four 18-year-olds

all of legal age

and illicit pleasures

or

A six-pack

of 12-year-olds

bordering on puberty

or

Eight nine-year-olds

with

a bouquet of questions

tickling their hearts

 

What if we considered

all of the above

through the looking glass?

 

Nine 8-yr-olds

could field a softball team

or

A dozen 6-yr-olds

could create

a crater of cacophony

 but

Eighteen 4-yr-olds

 could field a softball game

with much comic relief

 

However,

twenty-four 3-yr-olds

would wreak so much havoc

in a pre-school

that it would have no choice

but to convert to

a nunnery

and

thirty-six 2-yr-olds

could form their own

terrorist organization

Penultimately,

I wish a belated 

Happy 72nd Birthday

to Mr. Oliverio

and

a prelated 

Happy 72nd Birthday

to myself

Given the multiple choices

listed here,

there is always one more

—The Existential Option—

 

That choice is

None Of The Above

***

FRANCES STEERLING

 

My next page

is here 

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Timeless Photography

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BRUCE DAVIDSON

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DJ-Oliverio Special Edition: Perfect Love With Deleteable Advert

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MARC COHN

If only time could stand still

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Translating A Poem By UMONGUS OBESIO

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There are three reasons

I am not thinner:

Breakfast, Lunch

and Dinner

©©©

 

The poem, in its original language

is available for a small fee 

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