Three Images For HER And For Here

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3 photos en  route to the YelpLand

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Photoverio #716: Infinity Alley

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It's Color-Coded

© Oliverio

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Alphabetically SWEET MUSIC ... With A Deleteable Advert

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From the Soul

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Photoverio #715: Almost Jewish

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© Oliverio

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Exclusively For Readers Of Existential Fiction Masterpieces

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Saul Bellow's HERZOG

is 

Jean Paul Sartre's NAUSEA

at the

Comedy Store

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Footnote

Our lawyers will not allow

any hyperlinks on this page.

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Andy's Gang

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The Andy Borowitz Supreme Shock Troops

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Sad But True Redux [Haiku #80]

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  If intelligence

is heaven-sent

then why

is it not

permanent? 


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Footnotes

SAD BUT TRUE REDUX

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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Hooda Helami Gets Confessional

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I was born wealthy and rich

but almost fainted

because

the silver spoon in my mouth

was 

spray-painted

***

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego #142857

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Photoverio #714: From The Wanna-Be YID

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Casa Del mar

Backyard Image

© Oliverio

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Stucco Underwater

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Only Kidding

© Photoverio # 614.5

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HERZOG ... Page 2 of 2

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Trepverter

is a Yiddish word

that means

 the perfect response

to what someone says

after you have departed

from that conversation

****

I first read Saul Bellow

more than fifty years ago

On the first page of Herzog,

he defines Trepverter

At that time,

I was a great reader

of first pages or first chapters,

unless the author was

Salinger or Sartre or Vonnegut

Second pages or second chapters

were usually eclipsed by

a pretty face

or 

baseball statistics

or 

NBA / NFL stories

before falling into 

the pit of neglect

 

This was true

for at least fifty books

***

More than fifty years ago,

I read Updike's 

Rabbit Redux

but

—of course—

only the first chapter

Two months ago,

I learned that

what Updike I had read

was NOT Rabbit Redux

It was

Rabbit Run

***

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From The Guy Who Introduced Me To Trepverter ... Page 1 Of 2

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True insincerity is hard to find

!!!

SAUL BELLOW

Herzog

!!!

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A Multiple Choice Poem By Hooda Helami

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Sometimes

you feel like a nut

Sometimes

you behave like a nut

Sometimes

you are allergic

to nuts

***

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego

#142857

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Photoverio #713: A High-Wire Act

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Below The Dotted Line

© Oliverio

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Photoverio #712: One Hour After A Ten Minute Thunderstorm

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90802

© Oliverio

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Down The Rabbit Hole ... Page Five Of Seven

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The italic title of this series

about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom

brings to mind

Alice in Wonderland

 

Alice and Harry

do have some things in common

insofar as both characters

embark upon

very strange adventures

 

But it would be impossible

to imagine

Alice selling Toyotas

Speaking of those cars:

everything you ever 

wanted to know about them

is described in

the Rabbit Angstrom Quintology

Some would call that

"product placement"

and a complete list of products

that appear 

in John Updike's masterpiece

would make this page

one mile long

So I will list just a few:

Pizza Hut, golf clubs,

Winn Dixie Supermarket, Coca Cola,

Gilbey's Gin, and Honda Motorcycles

***

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Once Upon A Time In Los Angeles

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Jefferson High School

from 1950 Yearbook

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With An Apology To SUZIE PRICE

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Because her placard

was carefully staked in

Long Beach's 

most beautifully maintained,

variegated

and whimsical garden,

I intended to vote for

SUZIE PRICE

I voted on the second Sunday

prior to Primary Election day

I was the only voter

in a room with fifteen

poll workers

I scanned the ballot carefully

but could not find

the candidate SUZIE PRICE

I asked for  a ballot book

and two minutes later,

was handed one

However,

it was in Chinese

When I asked for another,

I was quickly handed 

a ballot book

en Espanol

 

But I am a Bronx-born

Italian-American

and the second book

was worthless to me

 

Out of frustration,

I completed my ballot

without casting a vote

for the 

Mayor of Long Beach

 

Once again,

I apologize to

SUZIE PRICE

but feel obligated to add

that every word

on this page

is 100% fact

😥

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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The Husband's Lament ... A Poem For Father's Day

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Putting the cart

before the horse

is like

letting her

break your heart

after the divorce

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Exhibited At The CHEECH Museum + Quote From Mr. Marin

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***

Artist = WAYNE ALANIZ HEALY

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K ... And The Apple

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The italic K

in the title

stands for

KAFKA

 

The following is 

a very simple observation

he made about a simple object

and how different people

respond to it

 

Let the simple object

be an apple

Consider

the view of a little boy

who his to crane his neck

in order to glimpse

the apple on a table

🍎

 

Now consider 

the master of the house:

who takes the apple 

and freely hands it

to the person

sitting at the table

with him.

 🍎 

≈ FRANZ KAFKA ≈

(1917)

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The Ultimate Vampires ... Another Poem By Hooda Helami

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Beware

the dubious denizens

dwelling

in the dark corners

of websites

But they are not there to 

eat your skin

or 

inhale your eyeballs

They are only there

to suck some blood

out of your

bank account

***

© HOODA HELAMI ©

a/k/a

Paul Oliverio

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A Poem Inspired By KIERKEGAARD

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Either/Or-ing

and

NeitherNor-ing

stood 

face to face

 

A mirror was between them

but this 

was no trick

 

The mirror's name

was

Logic

 

***

©  PAUL OLIVERIO  ©

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Down The Rabbit Hole ... Page Four Of Seven

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IMPOSSIBLE

is the task to list

all my favorite quotes

from

The Rabbit Angstrom Quintology

Ironically,

the quote listed below

was originally used

by Mr. Updike

elsewhere

but the author,

being a master of

"self-plagiarism,"

could have used it

in each volume

of the Rabbit saga

***

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Yin Yang Symbol Without Bi-Polar Colon

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Street Art Utopia

JON FOREMAN

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Midnight Metamorphosis (Comic Relief #4503)

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GARY LARSON

After midnight

—and last call—

the sign changes to

POTS

(Part Of The Solution)

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Down The Rabbit Hole ... Page Three Of Seven

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The answer is

NOBODY

The question is

Who would not take offense

to AT LEAST

five paragraphs

within the 

Rabbit Angstrom Saga?

 

After completing

the 1700+ pages

of the "Quintology,"

however,

I will state empirically

that Mr. Updike

has written

an American masterpiece 

***

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Two Homeless Guys Talking ... © Ollie Garky + Demmo Kracy ©

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Ollie Garky:

If we win, January will still have  two holidays. 

We'll erase Martin Luther King's birthday 

but make January 6th

a national holiday 

and give everyone a free beer.

Demmo Kracy:

I can live with that.

 

**********************

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Demmo Kracy:

But if we win, we'll reduce January

to a thirty-day month by simply

erasing the 6th from the calendar.

 

Ollie Garky:

And I'll change my name to Ollie Wood. 

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Down The Rabbit Hole ... Page Two Of Seven

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And Rabbit rhymes with Babbitt

The Institute of Inane Research,

knowing that Updike

was a great fan of TOLSTOY,

have learned that the author

considered titling

the Harry Angstrom saga

TALL BOY

😃😃

 

* © OLIVERIO © *

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A Repetitive Warp Of A Shakespearian Couplet

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To delay

or 

not to delay

 

to bet or not to bet

transcends

the Shakespearean couplet

action or inaction

is more than a choice

it is

—24/7—

your DNA's voice

 

at its most binary

  

but

here's wishing you

no plastic spoons

and pure silver finery

with easy access

to an elegant winery 

* *

 © PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Three Cheers For KELSIE WHITMORE

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⚾ ⚾

Read all about her

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Moonshine (Comic Relief #4497)

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GARY LARSON

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Down The Rabbit Hole ... Page One Of Seven

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I begin with the  imperfect reproduction 

of the title page of  John Updike's

four novels about

Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom

Approximately 1550 pages

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The next page

in this series is

here

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Quintessential Loneliness With LOVE + Deleteable Advert

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***

ARTHUR LEE

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Poem Begun In 1972 And Completed This Morning

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Standing in defiance

of all things in science

is like

pulling out all your hair

just to protect your head

from air

***

 

©  PAUL OLIVERIO  ©

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She Said/He Said Poem #285714

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She said

I Love You

as if tossing him

a bone

He said

Now we are entering 

the danger zone

:::

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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I Might Get Free Cat Food For Posting This Image

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© Oliverio

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Speaking Of Concessionaires At The Shooting Site

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The young man

who operated this concession

across the street from

the shooting

was selling

Cappucino, Slappucino

and Yo Mama's-Cino

 

His tip cup

was overflowing

❗❗❗

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BIG MONEY SHOOTING ... One Block From Home

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But fret not:

It is a commercial

for CitiBank

AT LEAST

150 people are involved

I use present tense because

today is the "shoot"

Yesterday 

was the "set-up"

Tomorrow

they "strike"

[close down the set]

As for the "principals,"

[actors and director]

they are nowhere 

to be seen

 

The image below

—shot exactly 1 block from home—

shows some "grunts"

and a concession selling

god knows what

 

There was zero editing

for this photograph

because the photographer

was paid zero dollars

for his efforts when

the "Hollywoody photographers"

are being paid

AT LEAST

$100 dollars per hour

❗❗❗

© Oliverio

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Photoverio #711: Rosie, Her Sister + Mother Of All Flowers

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© Oliverio

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A Dark Maybe-ism From Harry Angstrom

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JOHN UPDIKE  ---  Rabbit Is Rich

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The Problem With The Film KING RICHARD

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There should have been

another Academy Award

for BEST ACTRESS

(in a supporting role)

AUNJANUE ELLIS

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A Sad Day For American Sports Fans Unless, The Names ...

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Coco and Iga

mean nothing to you

Michelle Obama

not only knows

who Coco is

but sent

the teenager

a congratulatory text

for graduating high school

the day after winning

the 2022 French Open

Semi-finals

But today,

18 year-old Coco Gauff

was defeated

in the Finals

by Iga Piatek

21-year-old godsend 

Iga Piatek

is the reason

Poland is in 

hyper-celebration mode

today

I will close this

hyperlink-free

image-free page

by quoting

my therapist

[Dr. Raft]

"We should all have

pierogies for lunch

today"

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Texas Governor Impersonates Pat Paulsen Who Once Said

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"Guns don't kill people, bullets do"

- PAT PAULSEN

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ANDY BOROWITZ

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