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Sunday, August 29, 2021
To Make A Quatrain ... Number Forty-Eight
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To make a quatrain about
Flip and Flop
Nobody's at the bottom
unless someone's at the top
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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
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
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Saturday, August 28, 2021
Photoverio #609: Exiting Still Life With Orange Bus And Ladder
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The Curved, Tangential Mind Of Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo
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The year was 1928
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© Autobiography Of No One In Particular © ... Another Chapter
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Chapter 19
If
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
with two of my relatives
who lived outside of
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
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Italic Poem With Big Font, Lower Case And Multiple Choice
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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
***
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Friday, August 27, 2021
When A Good Deed Is Sacrilegous
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Donating clothing
to the needy
is a good thing to do
but this is not
how you do it
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
What MUSIC Is To Me, Myself And I
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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 ©
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The Most Important COMMA In The Hail Mary Prayer
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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
***
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The Favorite Place Of All Great Writers = W-L-And-F
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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
and
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What Does THIS Have To Do With That ???
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in the history of ART
This is a photograph by
Few people would dispute
the "shocking brilliance"
of Nachtway
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
in 1933
was Man Ray's
model/lover/muse
and then equal
in popularizing
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"
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
***
©© Paul Oliverio ©©
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Monday, August 23, 2021
Sage Advice (Comic Relief #4021)
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| WILLIAM HAEFELI |
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The First Wheelie (Comic Relief #4020)
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| SAM GROSS |
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A Poem Pasted Together By J. I. KLEINBERG
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| Published in UNLOST JOURNAL #26 |
Song List #HoosCountin' ... Across The Aisle
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| w/ 1 typo + 1 deleteable advert |
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Sunday, August 22, 2021
Don Everly , Rest In Peace, The Entire World Will Miss You
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If the custom-designed suits
worn by you and your brother, Phil,
were designed by Joe Anastasio
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| Tell him his Idiot grandson sends his love |
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Saturday, August 21, 2021
Photoverio #608: Mating Season
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Photoverio #607: From Somewhere In New Mexico
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Lee Miller + Rolling Stones' World War Two Victory Song =
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The song,
with deleteable advert
is from
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| War Photographer = LEE MILLER |
Page Subtitle = DJ-Oliverio McHistory Edition
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Friday, August 20, 2021
The Kind Of Person You NEVER Want To Know
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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 ©
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There Are Times When Gray Is A Primary Color
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| Photoverio #606.5 |
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2(Kerry J. Marshall) + Maybelle Smith - 1 Deleteable Advert =
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| DJ-Oliverio Special Edition |
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Photoverio #606: Bleached And Choreographed
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Music, Architecture And Me
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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
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Footnote
MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE
AND ME
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Music, Architecture And GOETHE
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Music
is liquid architecture
Architecture
is frozen music
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Monday, August 16, 2021
The DISINVITADOS From A Former President's Birthday Party
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Sunday, August 15, 2021
A Stupid Poem With A Deleteable Advert
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It is time
for a stupid laugh
I would be
me and a half
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
with a reduced fraction
from Jimi Hendrix
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© Autobiography Of No One In Particular © ... 2 More Chapters
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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
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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
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Photoverio #605: Old Man Still Breathing And Alive
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Saturday, August 14, 2021
Thinkers And Stinkers (Comic Relief #4001)
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| GARY LARSON |
A Faulty Reproduction Of An Extremely Important Image
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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
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Friday, August 13, 2021
When Sunflower Plants Lose All Their "Color" ...
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... They still have ...
... a lot of personality ...
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