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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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

NINE PAGES ... What Kind Of Idiot?

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Page 6
 
Immediately upon finishing
the J.D. Salinger book
written by
the literary Gods
gave me no choice
but to read
 
So I picked up the first copy 
I could find
 
It inspired
a profanity-laced attack
directed at whatever idiot
was responsible for
for a surplus of scribbles
inside the front cover

 Naturally, I discovered the identity
of whoever wrote notations
on AT LEAST
half the pages
of the 202 page novel

That idiot was the former 
thirteen-year-old boy
mentioned
on the previous page
i.e.
Paul Oliverio
who once wrote 
the following poem:
If forgetting were an art,
I'd be Van Gogh
then forget where my ear was
and cut off my toe
©©©
 
My next Salinger page
is  here
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3 comments:

  1. This is Dr. Raft, Paul's psychoanalyst and life-long friend.

    We talked on the phone today.
    That is something we hadn't done for over a month.

    We talked about tennis, pickleball, the New York Knicks,
    and the doctor's personal problems.

    However, When Paul read me this page,
    I noticed it ended with one of my patient's
    most famous poems.

    Thereby creating a copyright issue within
    the copyrighted existence of NINE PAGES and though
    I apologize profusely, I cannot allow
    any other comments here.

    but I could not help but notice

    ReplyDelete
  2. This is Dr. Raft, Paul's psychoanalyst and life-long friend.

    We talked on the phone today.
    That is something we hadn't done for over a month.

    We talked about tennis, pickleball, the New York Knicks,
    and the doctor's personal problems.

    However, When Paul read me this page,
    I noticed it ended with one of my patient's
    most famous poems.

    Thereby creating a copyright issue within
    the copyrighted existence of NINE PAGES and though
    I apologize profusely, I cannot allow
    any other comments here.

    ReplyDelete
  3. This is Dr. Raft, Paul's psychoanalyst and life-long friend.

    We talked on the phone today.
    That is something we hadn't done for over a month.

    We talked about tennis, pickleball, the New York Knicks,
    and a Los Angeles basketball team with a coach named HAM.

    All the while we were laughing loud enough
    to be heard somewhere on the interstate highways
    between Long Beach, California and Delray Beach, Florida.

    However, When Paul read me this page,
    I noticed it ended with one of my patient's
    most famous poems.

    Thereby creating a copyright issue within
    the copyrighted existence of NINE PAGES.
    I apologize profusely, I cannot allow
    any other comments here.

    ReplyDelete