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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Friday, August 19, 2022

He Said/She Said ... Hard + Soft

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All that is soft
came from Grace
Wisdom
(and its' hard edges)
came from Sam
 
Of course,
Grace and Sam
are best known
as 
my Mother and Father

Dime-a-dozen
are the moments
with Sam
and his wisdomic,
terse, funny ways
 
Inspiring the thought:
 
Wisdom is gender-based
 
Explaining why
I am sometimes
hard-pressed
to remember
any wisdom
expressed by
the woman who birthed me
 ***
 
BUT
[to the nth degree]
the most important words of wisdom
conveyed from parent
to this offspring
came from 
my widowed mother
in 1971
 
We were walking
two blocks
from home
to this beach:
 

Grace said to Paul
 
Your sins are so loud
and so obvious,
other people 
will forget
they have ever sinned
 
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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2 comments:

  1. You seem to contradict yourself by first saying
    you are hard-pressed to remember any wisdom
    she dispensed then saying she is responsible
    for the most important wisdom you ever got
    from a parent.

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    1. Guilty as charged:
      That quote from her is so imbeded in my head
      it sometimes feel less like words of wisdom
      and more like the air I need to breath

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