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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Monday, May 1, 2023

NINE PAGES ... Oliverio Becomes Schmuck-iverio

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Page Three
 
I knew that my relationship
with Mrs. CarPeo
was meaningful
because the only day
we ever spent in Manhattan
involved her dentist's office,
directly across from which
was the door
featured below.
 
was the literary agency
selected by Salinger
to represent him
primarily because
this agency had represented
his literary idol,
 
All google-eyed,
I walked into the office
where the woman 
at the desk
regarded me
with justifiable suspicion
until she realized
I was just another
harmless Schmuck
drooling to be in the presence
of the ghosts of
TWO of his literary 
Godheads
The next page is here
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 1, 2023 at 1:20 PM

    The Yiddish word —Schmuck— is a most beautiful
    and onomonotopoetic insult known to man and woman.

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    1. AnonymousMay 1, 2023 at 1:22 PM

      Shmuck-iverio indisputably agrees with you

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