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, August 16, 2023

Something About Syllables And Stitches

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Syllables
can be bullish
sad or silly
tilted or stilted
simple or profound
up in the air
or underground
 
As long as the sounds
they make
sing along with
the other syllables
in harmony
or rhythm
 
As long as they make
the feet tap a beat
or the the eyes surmise
when the mind does find
the stitches
that bewitches
and holds 
the syllables
together
 
You get music,
poetry, story
shame or glory:
 
Sisters and brothers
in the kingdom
of words
 
Or they can bore you
to death
if they have no breath
between them
and you get
stagnation:
 
Syllables on
a fatal vacation
if they are without
 punctuation
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 16, 2023 at 3:29 PM

    This sounds more like Rama Lama Ding Dong
    than To Be Or Not To Be.

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    1. AnonymousAugust 16, 2023 at 3:33 PM

      Indisputably true but Shakespeare never appeared
      on American Bandstand

      -Oliverio

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