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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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Hazy And Faded Sixty-Year-Old Image

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Bishop Reilly 1963
Freshmen Class Photo
I post this image
not so much because 
of the handsome boy,
front row, center
but because of the boy
immediately
to his left.
 
That is TERRY DUGAN,
my best friend in 1963
with whom I hadn't spoken
for twenty-two years
until two weeks ago.
 
Since then, 
we had three hours
of telephonic bliss
but what I am
most proud of:
hardly a day of his life
goes by without Terry
playing his guitar.
 
I have two other 
boyhood friends
—Jack McCarthy + Peter Galasso—
for whom
the same thing is true
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2 comments:

  1. You sure were an intense, handsome boy.

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    1. Paul Oliverio says:

      The intensity is still there.
      Whereas, hardly a day goes by
      without my three boyhood friends
      playing their guitars, hardly a day goes by
      without me listening to Rock n' Roll

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