Go THIS WAY, THAT WAY, Or None Of The Above

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Or

attempt to understand

the jibberish

on the other side

of these signs

 

© OLIVERIO ©

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Billie Holiday, Orson Welles, + Pope Francis

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Three of my Heroes

© Oliverio   Happy Googling

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At The Beach With DAVID HOCKNEY

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!!!

This is NOT

a beach towel:

it is a postcard reproduction

of a Hockney unpeopled

swimming pool

I have had this postcard

for more than fifty years

It is why I have praised

Hockney's art

to the heavens

with a small qualifier:

I love all 

of Hockney's art

except for paintings

of his naked boyfriends

DAVID HOCKNEY

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A Bug Named KAFKA Appeared To Me In A Dream

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!!!

The bug asked me a question:

DO YOU KNOW

THE WAY TO SAN JOSE

 

The Institute of Inane Research

determined that

Franz Kafka's

life-long dream

was to sing a duet

with 

Dionne Warwick 

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Existential Quote From The Creator Of BOGIE + BACALL

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Nothing answered me,

not even a stand-in

for an echo

***

RAYMOND CHANDLER

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The PIXILATO STORY BOOK ... Chapter Two

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***

The AMC movie theater

shut down

in the middle 

of a movie called

Dolomite Is My Name

 

All we could do

was go to 

Johnny Rocket's

on this dark and windy

night

 

We ate burgers and fries

unglued from the grill

but 

the jukebox

saved the day

***

She danced with 

the grill man

 

I danced with

the waitress

© Oliverio  with deleteable advert

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THE PIXILATO STORY BOOK ... Chapter One

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It was a dark and windy night

© Photoverio #688.5

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Photoverio #688: Legal Cathouse In Long Beach

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No cats are visible

in this cathouse

on the Long Beach Jetty

 

They are probably

prowling the Jetty's

natural salad bar

which is

untainted by

chemical additives

or corporate profits

 

Healthier cats

in Long Beach

are no where else

to be found

 

© Oliverio                      2011

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The 192nd Bullet: Critiquing The Critic

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 The critic who needs 

one thousand words

to explain

a piece of Art

knows more

about words

and less 

about Art

***

 

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Footnotes

THE 192nd BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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What This Is Not

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In this image...

all appears as if torched

and the earth

has been scorched

All homes but one

reduced to dust

However,

in irony we trust:

Oliverio fictionally

burnt that house

to dust

But truth is

within reach

and all you see

leads to

FRIENDSHIP BEACH

 

Everyday

in Paul's heart and soul

there is a hole

only to be filled

and thrilled 

by a return

—despite brain burn—

to that beach

 

With memory's gymnastics

it is within reach

 

©© Oliverio ©©

   

 

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Belated Congratulations To The 2023 TEXAS RANGERS ...

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For winning

The 2023 WORLD SERIES

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Corrupting The Classic Poetry Of JOYCE KILMER

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!!!

 

Kilmer told us

poems are made 

by fools like he

but only God

can make a tree

 

And that is why

the homeowner grieves:

If only God

can make a tree

let HIM 

rake the leaves

© Photoverio #687.5

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Photoverio #687: Floral Cameo

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!!!

© Oliverio

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Artificially Dedicated To Nut-Headed Gun Nuts

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!!!

MIKE ROYKO

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Pre-Historic Black Friday (Comic Relief #5401)

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!!!

GARY LARSON

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In Other Words ... Happiness + Gratitude + Sharing =

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Happy Thanksgiving 

to anyone who reads this

and for those who don't

I have a few bold words 

from

© HOODA HELAMI ©

 

Enjoy that bird

—presumably Turkey—

but if not,

there's always beef jerky

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A Few Words About The GOOD HOMELESS

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© Photoverio #686.5

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Photoverio #686: Blacktop Character

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© Oliverio

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Photoverio #685: Sandbaggian YIN YANG

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♋

© Oliverio         2005

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Two More For Mrs. CarPeo's SWEAT PEA Collection

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Adjacent to 

SWEAT PEA Truckstop,

they may have been

previously posted

© Oliverio (2x)    Wheatly AK    

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Paraphrasing JAMES CAGNEY

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I'm on top

of the world,

Ma

Photoverio #684.5

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A Song About WILLIE MAYS ... With Deleteable Advert

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!!!

JOE HENRY

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Photoverio #684: Seaweed Symphony

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© Oliverio

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Seasonally Colored Bicycle Lane

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Photoverio #683.5

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Photoverio #683: The Laughing Pitcher

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There must be

a funny beverage

within

© Oliverio

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Doctor Rorschach, There's A Big Hole In My Memory

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Patient:

A dozen years ago,

I saw these three sculptures at

the Norton Simon Museum

but I can't remember

the artist's name

Rorschach:

There are so many names,

we can't remember

all of them

Patient:

But I think 

I know why

I have to post this

Rorschach:

Think aloud please

but not too loudly

Patient:

The baseball batter HEAD

is a reminder to my creator (Blog-Overio}

that he never acknowledged

who won the 2023 World Series

Rorschach:

He's your creator and mine

but he promised me

that page is forthcoming

and this page will end with 

an enlargement of those sculptures

 

 

 

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Doctor Rorschach, I See A Shark In The Sky

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Patient:

I see a shark in the sky

about to devour

a cloud

 

Dr. Rorschach:

It is better to have 

the shark eat the cloud

rather than eat YOU

© Oliverio

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Corrupting Shakespeare

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To shop 

perchance to purchase

© Photoverio #682

 

and ring the bells

of consumer churches

 

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Last Image Of Pebble-verio Garden Before Reconstruction

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© Photoverio #681.5

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Some Do, Some Others Only Think (Comic Relief #5387)

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***

MIKE TWOHY

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Art From THE PRATT INSTITUTE

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***

BETHANYA ADEBE

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Photoverio #681: Silhouette Tree

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© Photoverio #681

Dedicated to Silhouette Sally

[a/k/a Eleanor G. CarPeo]

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The 191st Bullet: You Don't Say

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 If you really want people

to hear what

you have to say,

you have to be sure

they do not hear

what you don't say.

***

 

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Footnotes

THE 191st BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Photoverio #680: Natural Wrap

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© Oliverio

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Unformatted BULLETS ... Including One With GUNS

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📌

Sometimes first words are redundant

 

📌

A true artist takes advantage

of personal disadvantages

 

 

📌

Slow Learners exist primarily

for people with 

fast label guns

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

Bullet #190.5 

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USING YOUR IMAGINATION ... One More Time Linklessly

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Imagine yourself to be

someone much greater 

than you ever could be

In this case, 

I imagine myself to be

none other than 

BOB HOPE

Through too many wars to count, 

Mr. Hope and some

of the world's greatest entertainers

performed for the troops

in war zones

too dangerous to contemplate

 

But better minds than mine

have referred to

South-Central Los Angeles

as a battlefield

and in the cameo image below,

a BRENTON WOOD concert

was financed entirely by

selling donuts

 

In one of the images,

I am dancing with

a student who is presently

a seargant in 

the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department

 

However,

virtually all the dancing students

[mostly off-camera]

were better dancers than me

 

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Speaking Of ... USING YOUR IMAGINATION

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Imagine 

 visiting a museum

where something 

delights and intrigues

you

 

Then you wonder

 how neat  it would be

if you could talk 

to the artist

 

BUT

the artist 

who copyrighted

this image

legally changed

her name to

Mrs. CarPeo

on the same day 

when I 

semi-legally

changed my name to

Mr. CarPeo

***

 

Please give no credence 

to the rumor

that she titled this piece

For Better Or For Worse

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Activate Your Imagination ... But NOT Your Fingers

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Floral Skating Pond

***     © Photoverio #679     ***

 

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A Bold Quatrain From HOODA HELAMI

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Silence is the picture frame

for the spoken word

 

Noise is the option

for the neglected herd

***

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego #142857

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Image Inspiring Poem Composed Of Fabled Song Lyrics/Titles

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I shot the Sheriff tree

and got thirty days

 

But the judge

winked at this

brown-eyed 

handsome man

 

I ran as fast as I can

I was a hungry man

 

But under my thumb

was a bowl of jumbalaya

and a crawfish pie

so I thanked the sky

 

And  hit the road, Jack

never to turn back

 

On Route 66

I got my kicks and more

with a detour 

to Memphis, Tennessee

and on that scene

I met Jolene

 

Hello Dolly

and goodbye to

yesterday.

***

Dedicated to Tim Buckley and Brian Jones,

with gratitude to Chuck Berry,

Hank Williams, Dolly Parton,

Bob Marley and [of course]

the Beatles ________________________________________________________________________________________________

IN OTHER WORDS ... Freedom Of Speech Is A Part-Time Thing

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Rashida Tlaib,

the only Palestinian-American

in the House of Representatives,

was censured

—in a bi-partisan vote—

for speaking out about 

a catastrophic situation 

 

≈ IN OTHER WORDS ≈

our elected officials

believe in 

Freedom of Speech

only when

someone says

the exact same thing 

as everyone else

BUT

Oliverio is too chickenshit

to provide any hyperlinks

on this page

because he does not want

any anti-semites

knocking down his door

 

For the same 

chickenshift reasons,

I will neither

properly re-size the image

above

nor accept any comments 

below

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