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I am Dr. James Raft,
Paul Oliverio's psychoanalyst
and life long friend
But I will not
allow friendship
to interfere with
payment for services
rendered
Paul's preference is to
describe his age as
"twice thirty-seven"
He lives
on a fixed income
—both comfortably and uncomfortably—
in Long Beach, California
The GodFather of Math Trilogy
presently in
Chapter Seven
has totaled more than 7000 pages
of wit, wisdom, pretension
and jabberwocky
Paul's blogs appear to have
no formal followers
and we both prefer it that way
In truth,
my patient is very popular
in Malaysia,
China and Russia,
where translations are sent
to European countries
whose writers
then take credit
for what
was created by
Paul Oliverio
This generates
enough funding for Paul
to afford
psychoanalysis
However,
his page production
has slowed down
significantly
Once upon a time,
Paul Oliverio was
averaging sixty pages monthly
A passage of time
reduced the blogging to
a constant fifty/monthly
However,
he is presently averaging
barely forty pages monthly
The 2023 Wimbledon
Tennis Tournament
is partly responsible
for this
But
—more importantly—
his music file
is the greatest deterrent
to his output
The genius of his
tripled the size
of his music file
Before this happened,
each of approximately
four thousand tracks had been
listened to
AT LEAST
ten times
But the technician added
twice that many tracks
including a ten-pack
of Peggy Lee songs,
endless hours of
the Beatles at BBC,
Gene Pitney singing
an X-rated song
with the Rolling Stones,
virtually every song
ever recorded by
RICHARD BERRY,
who wrote the song
"Louie, Louie"
There are also
nearly 200 tracks of
Ella Fitzgerald,
Count Basie
+ Duke Ellington
...
...
And
an Italian composer
named SPINACHIO VERTIGO
has "pages-in-development"
regarding the film BLOW-UP
and
the collapsing Tacoma-Narrows Bridge
There are also in-progress pages
about
Snoop Dogg, James Garfield,
Mozart's 40th Symphony,
a blues guitarist devotee
of the artist Giotto
named "Joe Toe,"
Hommel figurines
and the actress
GREER GARSON,
etcetra, etcetra
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If Paul does not
get around
to posting these pages,
he will no longer afford
to pay his therapist
and
—I fear—
I might soon
be writing Paul Oliverio's
obituary
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