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| KRISTEN RADTKE |
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
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 |
Monday, June 28, 2021
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 padI 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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Saturday, June 26, 2021
Photoverio #588: Orgy Of The Roots Number Nine
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Or is the lead digit a Four
???
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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
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| Her career began at the age of 6 |
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Friday, June 25, 2021
Corona De Cristo Con Pescado Verde ... Translated Below
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with green fish
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
This Is NOT The Purple Rose Of Cairo
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It is
the Purple Rose
of
Half-Land
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
The Downside Of A Rose
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The downside of a rose
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| © Oliverio |
leaves no room
for thorns
but they are not
too far away
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
If You Object To The Cat Sitting In This Museum Gallery...
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| DENNIS TYFUS |
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Sunday, June 20, 2021
Photoverio #586: Who Is She Waiting For?
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Absolutely No One
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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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Rorschach Test #44: I See A Man And A Woman
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Back-to-Back
but joined at the hip
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The next
Rorschach page
is here _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Friday, June 18, 2021
DJ-Oliverio Special Edition: Leonard Cohen w/ Deleteable Advert
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
The Forty-Fifth Page In This Series ... Roses Are Red, Sometimes
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We can't go on
meeting like this
*** The next page in this series is here | |||
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
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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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Photoverio #585: White Birching In Black + White
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Soon To Be Posted Elsewhere With Guaranteed Improvements
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Monday, June 14, 2021
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
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
is the copyrighted property of
the Lewis Carroll School of Logic
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
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
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FRANCES STEERLING
I wrote this
in a letter to my father
during a heated correspondence
about about his employer,
I have long since
apologized to him
and hereby apologize to
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%]
+
[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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Saturday, June 12, 2021
Photoverio #584: Speed Limit 30
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Photoverio #583: Red Cardinal Buddies
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Title inspired by
Mrs. CarPeo
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Friday, June 11, 2021
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
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PAUL OLIVERIO
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Footnotes
HISTORY IS NOT
WHAT YOU SEE
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
This page is a direct descendent
of
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
The Wrought Irony Of 666
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It's built into our consciousness
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Photoverio #582: Branch Ballet
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Photoverio #581: The First Church Steeples
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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.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021
DJ-Oliverio Special Edition: George Harrison w/ Deleteable Advert
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The next Beatles' page
is here
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Divine Design
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Things disappear
sometimes by design
Or morph like water
into wine
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Photoverio #579: Yin-Yang
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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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Saturday, June 5, 2021
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
???
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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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Friday, June 4, 2021
Her Flowers Talk To Her But She Never ...
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Tells Me What They Say
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Thursday, June 3, 2021
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
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FRANCES STEERLING
My next page
is here
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Timeless Photography
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| BRUCE DAVIDSON |
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
DJ-Oliverio Special Edition: Perfect Love With Deleteable Advert
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| If only time could stand still |
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Translating A Poem By UMONGUS OBESIO
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There are three reasons
I am not thinner:
Breakfast, Lunch
and Dinner
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The poem, in its original language
is available for a small fee
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