It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Thursday, May 26, 2022

The Boy Who Read SUPERMAN Comics In Church

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At the Universal Studio Church,
Reverend Stevie Buddly
gave his Sunday School students
a special assignment:
draw pictures of God

Universally respecting
Freedom of Religion,
Reverend Buddly expected 
twenty children to draw
dramatically different images
 
After three hours
of Sunday School,
—using hundreds of crayons,
highlighters and Sharpies—
this proved to be true
 
However, 
minutes after
the assignment began,
a boy named Fredo
was reading 
a Superman Comic Book
 
"Fredo, you're supposed to be
drawing God,
why are you reading
a comic book?"
 
"Because I finished the assignemt"
and the boyturned over 
the sheet of drawing paper 
on his desk
 
It was a pencil-drawn
straight line
 
"God is a straight line,"
Fredo explained,
"that connects us
to our soul, to our community,
to our family, to each other.
What more do we need?"
 
Beginning the following Sunday,
Fredo say next to
Reverend Buddly
 
The seven-year-old boy
 was now the
Pastor's assistant
 
*** © PAUL OLIVERIO © ***
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 26, 2022 at 4:39 AM

    An infinite straight line.

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  2. AnonymousMay 29, 2022 at 2:44 AM

    Why does the name STEVIE BUDDLY sound familiar?

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  3. Paul OliverioMay 29, 2022 at 2:54 AM

    Because Stevie Budd is my favorite character
    from SCHITT's CREEK

    https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=stevie+Budd

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