This K-Nine Kisser Charges Double For A Face Lick

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Her name is

Joan Wilkes Booth

but you can call her

"QUEENIE"

Photoverio #752.5

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Question + Answer With Birds On A Wire

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Question:

One of us is missing.

Who is it?

 

Answer:

It's our leader, Yippee.

Maybe she found

some food!

© Mrs. + Mr. CarPeo (2x)

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Love Thy Neighbor IFF ... Another Poem From Hooda Helami

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Words without meaning

have you leaning

all ears to the speakers

—ditto for ten million seekers—

be they funny, soft, or loud

but uniting this crowd

with a brass band

in the palm of their hand

Your joy is reeling

to words with

only feeling

Words with meaning

have no worth

when a new movement

is given birth

"Love thy neighbor"

is boomed from

the top of a bus

"unless—of course—

he doesn't agree

with us"

"We'll give him a lift

IF and only iF

he'll ride on our bus"

***

 

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego #142857

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The Thistle, Her Shadow, And Her Photographic Defect

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© Mrs. CarPeo

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Photoverio #752: King Of 1100 Boxes

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With A Yellow Aura

© Oliverio

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Photoverio #751: Wrinkled, Sleeping Lincoln And The ...

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Wrinkled, Sleeping Lincoln

And The Dreaming Tree

 

 

 

 

*** 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 © Oliverio © 

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One Day After HIS Birthday, We Resume Normal Blogcasting

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I never became cynical

about the Lord,

only about his 

creation

***

ROBERTSON DAVIES

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Whether Or Not You Celebrate HIS BIRTHDAY

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We wish you

a safe,

healthy,

and festive

Merry Xmas

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Two Almighty Sluggers On The Eve Of HIS Birthday

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From their post-career Paradise,

Willie + The Duke

wish everyone

a safe, 

healthy + festive

holiday

and happier

everything else

[Yankee fans included]

©Oliverio© + Deleteable Advert

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This Image Is Front + Central In My DNA

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This is my personal Mt. Rushmore

[from Left to Right:]

My namesake, My father, 

Father Frank and Uncle Tony

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About HIS Day Job On The Eve Of HIS Birthday

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With Deleteable Advert

 

Written by PHIL OCHS

sung by JOHNNY CASH

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Honoring A Potential Saint Two Days Before HIS Birthday

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There are many 

movers and shakers,

candlestick makers,

shovels for rakers.

 

But

there is

one and only one

DUSTY BAKER,

a World Champion

amongst champions

 

But

I live in Los Angeles

where it is obligatory

to hate all things

related to

the Houston Astros

and 

it could prove fatal

if this page 

contained any hyperlinks

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Six Hundred Years Before HIS BIRTH

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Sappho 

and her sisters

dance in celebration

without knowing

anything about

HIM

© Oliverio

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Greetings From Mario Four Days Before HIS BIRTHDAY

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Happy Holidoodles and 'Aloe to Eve'body

and Everyone else

***   © Oliverio    ***

 

With coffee bean fertilizer

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Nearly X-Rated When It Is Nearly Xmas

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© Oliverio ©

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Four Days Before We Celebrate HIS BIRTHDAY

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IN THIS FESTIVE SEASON,

WE LOOSEN OUR BELTS

WE WISH YOU

HEALTH, WEALTH, + HAPPINESS

AND NOTHING ELSE

©©©

 

© OLIVERIO

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Anthony + Althea Anorexio ... Married But Truncated

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***

© Photoverio #750.5

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Rorschach Wall Art

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***

I see two couples 

:::

wearing leopard spots

:::

there's also

a lion's head

with a goose neck 

desk lamp

 

They're dancing 

the night away

©©©

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A Poem Starring HOODA HELAMI

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I looked up to heaven

and there was only one

star in the sky

and that star was

Me

But how could that

be?

When I am 

down here

and the star is 

up there

 

Can I be

both the viewer

and the viewed?

 

Is the world my mirror?

 

That is something

worth looking into

***

 

©    HOODA HELAMI    ©

Alter Ego #142857

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The 179th Bullet: Mental Egotism

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The problem with knowledge

is NOT knowledge itself

but the person 

seeking it 

with a lust to have 

more knowledge than

every encyclopedia of

the biggest college.

  

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Footnote

THE 179th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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The First Author (Comic Relief #4811)

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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, et al

are descendents of THAG

GARY LARSON

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Photoverio #750: Street Hoops

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© Oliverio

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The Black Family Of Whitestone ... Page Five

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In the land of the 2.0 Oliverios,

there is a big  birthday celebration today

—festive and heavenly—

with the one condition that proves 

God works in mysterious ways:

the birthday celebrant

is NOT invited

 

The birthday girl is my  "baby" sister

 

Judi is needed on terra firma

by her four children, six grandchildren

and all the men who turn heads

when she walks by

Not to mention how much

her living brother needs her

The most stunning thing about 

my sister's birthday

is that she looks 

20 years younger

than she actually is

 

This  occasionally irks me

because I look only

thirteen years younger

than I actually am

***

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Flowers Have A Funny Way Of ...

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Sticking their  tongues out

at humans

© Photoverio #749.5

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A Poem About Spectacles, Fantasies, And Reality

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In the blurred land of Myopia,

I was seeking a Utopia

 

I could not see far

and what was far

could not see me

 

So I settled for Dystopia

 

Now I am at one

with the universe

***

 

©  HOODA HELAMI  ©

Alter Ego #142857 

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The Black Family Of Whitestone ... Page Four

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The boy is me

and my baby sister

with the piercing eyes

is the one 

who begifted me 

with this family photo.

She remembered  

the [barely visible] popsicle

in my father's hand:

 

Daddy said

"Everyone gets one bite."

That is exactly what happened

and the last bite was yours,

brother dearest.

 

It dripped all over

your new polo shirt

and we all 

laughed our asses off

***

The story of my life

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Buon Natale E Felice Anno Nuovo

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In other words,

Merry Christmas

+

Happy New Year

© Oliverio

Milano, 2008

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Her Mother's Confession ... A Whale Of A Tale

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:::

When I was at boarding school,

I also studied whales.

They taught natural history

and I liked it a lot.

Bu at that school,

we had to go a little too often

to mass.

We were always having to confess.

Sometimes we didn't know 

what to confess

and so we'd say

"I stole the snow."

 

NATALIA GINZBURG

***

Family Lexicon

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One More Quote From KURT VONNEGUT's Letters

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Culture is a gadget

that can be tinkered with

like a Model T Ford.

***

KURT VONNEGUT

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Photoverio #749: Fenced In

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The Bleached Beach

© Oliverio

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Trump The Terminator

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ANDY BOROWITZ

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5 Orient Road Revisited ... Before And After

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Purchased in 1975, with windfall from

my parents' estate, this is what it 

looked like before I sold it

in January, 1981:

My nom de plume at that time

was CLOD MONET

and I always wore a beret

:::

This

is what the house looked like

thirty-two years

after I sold it

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"The Black Family Of Whitestone" ... Page Three

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Below the photograph,

I explain why

I am not offended

by having my 

immediate family

referred to as

"The Black Family"

My Father's nickname

was "Blacky"

because 

—in 1931—

at the age of fifteen

he was the only 

white man

mopping the floors

of

Grand Central Station

***

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Should Be Page Zero (Comic Relief #4799)

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The Genesis of Stand-Up Comedy

GARY LARSON

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A Hooda Helami Poem Entitled Shock + Awe

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When you live in

the land of 

Shock and Awe

you are on

an emotional see-saw

that rises to

unseen heights

with constant fights

in your cosmic

boxing ring.

 

Every ounce of sincerity

morphs into 

pounds of dust

and all that you trust

is bleached with rust

every boom is a bust

warping your lust

 

It is not

a pretty thing.

 

***

 

©  HOODA HELAMI  © 

 Alter Ego #142857

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A Beatles Tribute Band And Its Alteration Of A Famous Verse

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This tribute band

performs exclusively

at Rest Homes

and retirement communities

in New Jersey

"I Saw Here Standing There"

is a Beatles song

recorded in 1963

This tribute band revised

the song's most famous verse

 

She was just seventeen

and you know what I mean

 

morphed into

 

She was just seventy

and that's enough for me

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

The next Beatles' page

is  here

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The 178th Bullet: Route 1 Or Route 101

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There is, basically, 

one way

to tell the truth.

 

 But there are, basically,

one hundred and one ways

to tell a lie. 

 

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Footnote

THE 178th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Tofu-licious Multi-Lingual Breakfast Of Champions

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On a crisp wintry day

***

Tomato soup

swirled with 

parmesan and pepper

en fuego

©    Photoverio #748.5   ©

Much Yummitude

for the Yuletide

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Her Mother's Poem ... Translated From Italian

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Ignorance I thee hail,

you're my holy grail!

Happiness is your realm so please

Let's leave studying to the Macabees!

Let's drink, dance, and avoid debate,

C'mon let's celebrate!

Now Muse inspire you must,

What is in my heart do say,

Tell me the philosopher is bust,

True love's the ignoramus's way.

NATALIA GINZBURG

***

Family Lexicon

***

 

Click  here

for

Natalia's Mother's

last words  

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Inspired By Vonnegut But Requiring A Twain Tweak

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It is possible

to believe in God

without believing 

in Religion

***

 

If Mark Twain

were to tweak these words,

it would read

 

 It is possible

to believe in God

without believing in

organized Religion 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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"The Black Family Of Whitestone" ... Page Two Of Five

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Three people in this picture

are the founding members

of the Oliverio 2.0 Family:

Lynda, Grace and Sam

 

The other people are

myself and my sister Judi

who is presently

a grandmother

of six

***

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???

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I will let the reader guess

which member 

of my current household

referred to this image

as

"The Black Family"

BUT

allow me to add

two things

about this

photographic

page

 

1

Henceforth, it will be

partially referred to as

"Page One Of Five"

2

Family heirlooms

don't get any loomier

***

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BOB DYLAN Quote Regarding The First Commandment

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I like the Ten Commandments,

Especially the first one.

 

I AM THE LORD, THY GOD

is a great commandment

if it's not said

by the wrong people.

***

 

≈ BOB DYLAN ≈

See below

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Why Teachers Have More Sanity Than Educators

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Teachers are more capable

 of limiting their teaching 

to the four walls

of a classroom.

***

© Paul Oliverio ©

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The 177th Bullet: The Solution For Education

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There is no more cheating

in the classroom.

There is only

Co-operative Learning. 

 

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Footnote

THE 177th BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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We Are Celebrating His Birthday This Month

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Ring-A-Levio

with 

Jesus Christ

© Photoverio #748.5

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