DJ-Oliverio Special Edition: Obscenity Prayer + Deleteable Advert

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

RODNEY CROWELL

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

To Make A Quatrain ... Number Forty-Eight

________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

To make a quatrain about  

Flip and Flop

 

Nobody's at the bottom

unless someone's at the top

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #609: Exiting Still Life With Orange Bus And Ladder

________________________________________________________________________________________________

© Oliverio

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Curved, Tangential Mind Of Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The year was 1928

MARIO PUZO

!!!

________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

© Autobiography Of No One In Particular © ... Another Chapter

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 19

 

If  

Brian Wilson

and Al Jardine

were not performing

in Long Beach

on August 29, 2021,

this page would not exist

 

I was offered a gift ticket

but I could not have

fully enjoyed the show

without the presence

of my better half 

So I beseech Pat Sayjack 

and Banana White

to spin the wheel of Time

and land on the date

of March 18, 1966

Because I was there

with two of my relatives

who lived outside of

Parkchester Circle 

 

Sometime during the week

leading up to

that concert,

my Mother found

a small manila envelope

which contained

what her son referred to

as "flavored foliage"

 

When she uttered

the immortal words

I am glad it was

grass and not pot,

everyone else in

our house laughed,

including my

9-year-old sister

 

My mother sought advice

from her sister

who told her

it was possible for Paul

to have fun

without being with 

his "hippy" friends

 

I don't know if 

my Aunt Jean

paid for the tickets

or my parents did

 

But the result was

seeing the Beach Boys

and their opening act

—the Lovin' Spoonful—

at Fordham University

in the Bronx

where my cousin Robert

was a student

 

I was there with

Aunt Jean

and my cousin Lorraine,

who would become

the most important girl 

for the first third

of my life

 

The grand mass

of marvelous memories

of that concert

cannot be measured,

despite the absence

of Brian Wilson

 

I bought a concert t-shirt

for Robert,

who chauffeured us

to and from the concert

 

On the ride home,

I asked Aunt Jean

if she was now 

a Beach Boys fan:

I will be

if you prefer me

that way

 

But that  Zal Yanofsky fella'

sure needed a haircut

 

He was the lead guitarist

of the  Lovin' Spoonful 

and the big shadow

of his thick shoulder-length

locks on the white wall

behind the stage

is as tangible to me

today as it was

fifty years ago

 

Three months

after the concert,

The Oliverio family

was in Rocky Point,

our summer home

 

We were eating a traditional

Sunday morning

home-made Waffle breakfast

when CALIFORNIA GIRLS

started playing

on Paul Oliverio's

transistor radio

 

I turned up the volume

full-blast and had the audacity

to sing along

while Lynda and Judi

[as if on cue]

started dancing like go-go girls

 

Sam and Grace

just sat there eating waffles

but they did hold hands

until the song ended

 

 I wish they all could be

California Girls

Oliverios  

 *** 

The next chapter

is  here

 

The first chapters

of this autobiography

are  there 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Italic Poem With Big Font, Lower Case And Multiple Choice

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

either 

i will change

the way i'm living

 

do more taking

and less giving

 

or 

i will live

the way i'm changing

 

do less taking

and more giving

 

less hate

more love

 

or

i will do

none of the above 

***

©  PAUL OLIVERIO  ©

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

When A Good Deed Is Sacrilegous

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Donating clothing 

to the needy

is a good thing to do

but this is not

how you do it

© Oliverio

________________________________________________________________________________________________

What MUSIC Is To Me, Myself And I

________________________________________________________________________________________________

MUSIC

is the motor

that lights up

my inner dance floor

where my feet are always

moving in time,

regardless of

what type of music

is playing

As for the rest of my body,

it will be dancing

if I am in

the right company

and there is actual 

floor space

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Most Important COMMA In The Hail Mary Prayer

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

I do not want to sound

too Catholic

so I am only going

to quote

two lines 

from the prayer:

 

***

Blessed is the fruit

of thy womb, Jesus

***

 

Ignoring that comma 

makes the second line become

of thy womb Jesus

and the word "womb" 

becomes an adjective

as in

thy tall Jesus

or

thy handsome Jesus

 

BUT

that comma is essential

as a moment of breath

and "thy womb"

is another name for

Jesus

 

Q. E. D. 

 

 

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©  _______________________________________________________________________________________________

The Favorite Place Of All Great Writers = W-L-And-F

______________________________________________________________________________________________

The Words-Lost-And-Found

is the shopping center

of 

all great writers

throughout the world

 = = 

= =

 

Everyone, everywhere,

in every language

has something 

very profound

to say

but,

more often than not,

the words 

get lost

before 

the mouth

can transfer them 

into speech

HOWEVER

all the great writers

of the world

are scavengers

 at the global outposts

which are the destination

of everything

un-mouthed

 

This Lost and Found contains 

the profound words 

that never got voiced 

because someone else

couldn't say them

first

All the great writers 

take home these words

into their working studios

and sculpt them 

into that thing we call

Literature

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

Inspired by

Jenny Erpenbeck

and 

Italo Calvino

______________________________________________________________________________________________

What Does THIS Have To Do With That ???

________________________________________________________________________________________________

These are the most famous lips

in the history of ART

This is a photograph by

James Nachtway

 Few people would dispute

the "shocking brilliance"

of Nachtway 

as a war photographer

But what does

the first image

have to do with 

the second image

???

The Answer:

Consider the third image:

Can you see how

that image

may have influenced

Nachtway's 1995 photograph

from Chechnya?

The third image

was photographed

by LEE MILLER

in 1945

(approximately)

Those are her lips

in the first image

which was created by

Man Ray

in 1933

 

Lee Miller

was Man Ray's 

model/lover/muse

and then equal 

in popularizing

Solarized Photography

 

James Nachtway

would only slightly object

to the title of

"war photographer"

 

But despite what he may

say or not say,

an artist of his stature

does not forget his influences

and inspirations

 

HOWEVER,

to describe Lee Miller

as a "war photographer"

shortchanges her talents

 

Let me go on record

as saying the following

(and welcoming any disputation):

 

No woman,

in the history

of life on Earth,

has contributed more

to the world of Art

than 

LEE MILLER

***

©© Paul Oliverio ©©

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sage Advice (Comic Relief #4021)

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

WILLIAM HAEFELI

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

The First Wheelie (Comic Relief #4020)

________________________________________________________________________________________________

SAM GROSS

________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Poem Pasted Together By J. I. KLEINBERG

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

FLOWERS

Published in  UNLOST JOURNAL #26

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Song List #HoosCountin' ... Across The Aisle

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Aisle Follow The Sun

w/ 1 typo + 1 deleteable advert

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Don Everly , Rest In Peace, The Entire World Will Miss You

________________________________________________________________________________________________

***

If the custom-designed suits

worn by you and your brother, Phil,

were designed by Joe Anastasio

***

Tell him his Idiot grandson sends his love

***

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #608: Mating Season

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

      

 © Oliverio

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #607: From Somewhere In New Mexico

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

© Oliverio

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Lee Miller + Rolling Stones' World War Two Victory Song =

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The song,

with deleteable advert

 is from

ROLLING STONES 12 X 5

War Photographer = LEE MILLER

 

 

Page Subtitle = DJ-Oliverio McHistory Edition 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Kind Of Person You NEVER Want To Know

________________________________________________________________________________________________

When she dies,

Satan will cheer

and welcome her

with a high-five,

luxury accommodations

and a corner office

 

But an executive assistant

of Hell

will be out of a job

👹👹👹

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

________________________________________________________________________________________________

There Are Times When Gray Is A Primary Color

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #606.5

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

2(Kerry J. Marshall) + Maybelle Smith - 1 Deleteable Advert =

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Hair-Dressing Women

DJ-Oliverio Special Edition

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #606: Bleached And Choreographed

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

***

© Oliverio

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Music, Architecture And Me

 _______________________________________________________________________________________________

Music

is the roof

over my head

 

Music is the floor

under my feet

 

The shades on my windows

to keep out

the ugly realities

of the world

 

Music

is my architecture

 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Footnote

MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE

AND ME

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Hey, Abbott ... Irony is Wearing High-Heel Sneakers

______________________________________________________________________________________________

***

**_____________****

 

The last hyperlink

has a deleteable advert 

and is well-worth the wait  

______________________________________________________________________________________________

A Curvaceous And Complete Fable By ITALO CALVINO

______________________________________________________________________________________________

MAKING DO

***

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Music, Architecture And GOETHE

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Music

is liquid architecture

Architecture

is frozen music

***

GOETHE

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

The DISINVITADOS From A Former President's Birthday Party

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

***

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

A Stupid Poem With A Deleteable Advert

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

It is time

for a stupid laugh

 

If two were three

I would be

me and a half

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

 

with a reduced fraction

from Jimi Hendrix 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

© Autobiography Of No One In Particular © ... 2 More Chapters

 _______________________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 17

 

The older you get, 

the more you need to

sneer at the calender

 

Think of death 

as just another

marketing device

 

A product whose purchase

is unavoidable

but let every

disdainful sneer 

be another pump 

of air into

whatever bicycle of life

you are still riding

 

It doesn't even

have to be

an actual

goddam bicycle

***

 

Chapter 18

 

If God

did not have 

a sense of humor,

there would be no such thing

as mosquitos

 

If I didn't have

a sense of humor,

there would be no such thing

as 

The Godfather of Math Trilogy 

 

Parts 4, 5, 6, 7

not excluded

 

I have a need 

to write more 

on this page

while comfortably ensconced 

on my patio

but I just had another

goddam mosquito bite

on my left ankle

and 

Mrs. No One In Particular

has just cooked

some of her

world-class 

French Toast

*** 

The next chapters

are here

 

The first chapters

of this autobiography

are  there 

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Photoverio #605: Old Man Still Breathing And Alive

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

© Oliverio

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Thinkers And Stinkers (Comic Relief #4001)

________________________________________________________________________________________________

GARY LARSON

________________________________________________________________________________________________

A Faulty Reproduction Of An Extremely Important Image

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vanity is wearing high-heel sneakers

when I see the reason 

I still have more hair

on my head

than most 72-yr-old men

and it is still as wavy

as the hair on top

of my Father's head

in this 1943 image

________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

 

When Sunflower Plants Lose All Their "Color" ...

________________________________________________________________________________________________

... They still have ...

... a lot of personality ...

© Photoverio #604.5 ©

________________________________________________________________________________________________