MUST READING Strikes Again

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If this ain't MUST READING,

they should

throw that phrase

out of the dictionary

!!!

DAVE BARRY

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Covid-22 (Comic Relief #4228) ... A Prediction

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If you Get COVID-22, you will catch 

a cold + insanity

but anyone who knows they are insane

cannot truly be insane

 

 

 

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Text = Oliverio

Cartoonist =  ???

Inspiration = Joseph Heller

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Mother Bee And Her Megaphone (Comic Relief #4227)

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GARY LARSON

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The Everlasting Everglades With Member Of Security Staff

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© Delray Beach Rath Trinity ©

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😎😎😎 Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays 😇😇😇

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From

Paul and Carol

©  Oliverio ©

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One Difference Between The Beatles And The Rolling Stones

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The Beatles 

Let It Be

While the Stones

Let It Bleed

***

 

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Footnote

The next Beatles' page

is  here

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Rest In Peace, JOAN DIDION

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***

Please click on image

to read quotes

She died yesterday, at age 87

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Photoverio #642: Another Rose For Carol

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© Oliverio ©

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Photoverio #641: Another Shopping Center Image

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©  Oliverio  ©

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A Poem About The Mafia ... Written By Hooda Helami

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If the Mafia never touched

another gun,

their power structure would

not be a mess

All they'd have to do

is duplicate the behavior of

the United States Congress

:::

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

Alter Ego #142857

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A Crane, A Spot Of Green + A Building Under Construction

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And A Street-Level View

©  Photoverio #640.5  ©

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Photoverio #640: Striped And Enigmatic Long Beach Mural

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Artist Unknown But Worthy of Street Art Utopia

© Oliverio

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A Quirky Kirky Quote From The GILMORE GIRLS

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An oral agreement

is only as good as

the paper it's 

written on.

Season 5 // Episode 21

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DJ-Oliverio Special Edition With Mick Jagger Quote About A God

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***

+++

 

SLIM HARPO

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Newly Crowned MISS AMERICA Expands My Vocabulary

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I have flaws.

I have ADHD, 

I have dermatillomania, 

which is a form of OCD

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Fifty-Three

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To make a quatrain about  

delivering the mental kill

 

Tell people what to think

... and they will

 

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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

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Description Of The Whole Shopping Center

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©   Photoverio #639.5  ©

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The Truth Behind All The DONALD TRUMP CHEERLEADERS

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!!!

©  Oliverio  ©

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Photoverio #639: Gray Day For A Parking Lot

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© Oliverio

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Three More For The Good Doctor Rorschach, That Is

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And The Doctor Said:

Actually, Mr. Oliverio

These are just

Pumpkin paintings

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Third Monkee From The Sun: Rest In Peace, MIKE NESMITH

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I find all his music

with the Monkees

unparalelled

but

ELDORADO TO THE MOON

(with deleteable advert)

proves why

Mr. Nesmith is

—justifiably—

referred to as

"The Godfather of MTV"

:::

Mike died last week,

leaving Mickey Dolenz

as the sole surviving

Monkee

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About That Rock And That Hard Place

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Between a rock

and a hard place,

there is enough space

to lose face

:::

©  PAUL OLIVERIO  ©

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Therapy For Onychocryptosis Survivors

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If you have had

an ingrown toenail removed,

© Oliverio

 

this    --- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

is your Recovery Exercise Trail

 

Its texture makes

the toenailed foot feel like

it is on the top of the world 

 

At the other end,

you will be rewarded with

a candy bar shaped like

your ingrown toe.

 

The rewards are presented by

a representative of

Dr. Weingarten

 

She may require 

multiple laps

before issuing

candy toe       ________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sad But True [Haiku #79]

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  No pain for the brain

when you are

oblivious to the obvious 


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Footnotes

SAD BUT TRUE

is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL


My haikus
are no longer linked together
because we do not
want to make life
too easy for our favorite thieves

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12 British Slangos Beginning With The Hardest

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Slanguage + Deleteable Advert

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These Ginger Roots Do Not Resemble GINGER ROGERS

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Obviously

© Oliverio ©

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The 163rd Bullet: Avoidance

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People who avoid

the examined life 

 are people 

worth avoiding

  

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Footnote

THE 163rd BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Photoverio #638: Gray Day BOP

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Birds Of Paradise

© Paul Oliverio ©

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If You Go ...

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If you go to

a fortune teller,

I wish you 

the best of luck

 

But

 if you go to

Seven/Eleven

and 

buy a lottery ticket,

you save a lot of time 

and money

 _

If you go to

church/temple/synagogue

and pray for 

a deceased parent,

you are a perfectly 

normal person

and I am jealous

 _

However,

if you have a seance 

with a psychic

or seer

to get in touch 

with

a deceased parent, 

you have my pity

because you would

have the same 

 success rate

as stopping a stranger

on the street 

  and asking for  

   the whereabouts of

     mommy or daddy   

 ::

 

  But 

if you lock yourself

    in a room with a picture

   of that deceased parent

and meditate  on it 

   for hours

...

  

 BINGO

 

Because

that image goes straight

to your soul,

where it has been

for as long as needed

to find it

 

Your soul,

your innermost feelings,

and your heart 

are all you need

to high-five

anyone

who has said

goodbye

to their earthly coil 

:::

 

©  PAUL OLIVERIO  ©

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Rorschach Test #46: It's A Nordic Turtle Head

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A Gargoyle for a Viking Ship

©  Oliverio  ©

The next

Rorschach pages

are  here 

and TBD _______________________________________________________________________________________________

Great Moments In History (Comic Relief #4199)

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Documented by

GARY LARSON

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Photoverio #637: Crystal Conversion

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Converting Instant Coffee To Superior Coffee

©  Oliverio  ©

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Photoverio #636: Slightly Tilted, Slightly Mondrian

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©  Oliverio  ©

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Blue BOP in the Parking Lot

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Birds Of Paradise

©  Photoverio #635.5  ©

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The Flatulent Genius Of YOKO ONO

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In 1971,

Read All About It

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Dinner For Four On 2nd Street In Belmont Shore

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We all ordered seafood dishes

but what does it say

about a restaurant

when the only thing 

everyone raved about

was the French Fries?

 

©  Mrs. CarPeo  ©

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I Was Her Twenty-Per-Cent Man

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With a backstage pass

or waiting in

the theater alley,

I had the loot for

Salacious Sally

With a front-row seat

and tonic for my gin,

at this dog show

she was

Rin-Tin-Tin

All around us

was the rabble

 

We went home

and played

Scrabble

She had 

four-letter words

all over the board

but I cleared my rack

and triple-scored

:::

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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How Did You Meet Her?

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We met

when she sat

on my lap

It gave my heart a tap

when she shook her booty

and I called her

Cutie

 

She gave me her number:

#49

 

When she had

gotten through

the first forty-eight,

she was tired of living

 

We've been together

ever since

and I've never

been happier

 

But she has never been

:::

 

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Bottom Feeders' Holiday

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Bottom feeders look down

from the top

of the mountain

with delight

dancing with

the stars

at midnight

Top feeders look up

rattling a tin cup

with sorrow

but the cup

will be gold

tomorrow

Somewhere

a dog is barking

at the moon

:::

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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The Simple Definition of MINE KAMPF

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What's mine is mine

and

what's yours

is mine.

:::

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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The True Meaning Of The OMICRON Variation

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OMICRON

is a signal that

Covid has gone

corporate.

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Santa, Mickey And Minnie Mouse In Belmont Shore

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"Winter Village"

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Elimination ... A Poem By Frances Steerling

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We would not have

the rich

if there were not

so many 

poor people

 

If we eliminate

the poor people

then there will be

no rich people

 

And we will all be

middle-class

 

We will all be

in the middle

and then

we will all

die of boredom

:::

 

© FRANCES STEERLING ©

 

 

 My next page

is  here 

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What Reggie Jackson, Billie Holiday + FSF Have In Common

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44

Reggie Jackson

wore that number

on his baseball jersey

Billie Holiday

+

F. Scott Fitzgerald

both died

at that age

:::

 

The next

GoFather/Fitzgerald page

is TBD 

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A Quote From The HOUSE OF CARDS, Chapter Thirty-Four

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Imagination

is its own form

of courage

:::

"President Frank Underwood"

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What Roger Maris + Bob Dylan Have In Common

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HIBBING, MINNESOTA

It was Roger's birthplace and where  Dylan "grew" up

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Chess Solitaire On A Park Bench

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His fingers were playing

chess with his toes

 

When he made a good move

he wiggled his nose

 

When he made a bad move

he tore his clothes

 

He stood up

and declared victory

 but he forgot

who won

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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