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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Friday, December 29, 2023

HOODA HELAMI's Last Poem Of The Year

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The Emperor
wore no clothes
because the Empress
gave them to 
her love slave
who traded them in
for three packs
of cigaretttes
and 
a ham sandwich
on rye
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© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 29, 2023 at 3:03 PM

    It sure as hell sounds like HOODA HELAMI to end the year
    with a poem about a ham sandwich...on rye, no less.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 29, 2023 at 3:08 PM

    Supposedly, the name of the love slave is Datz Shorezhell Johnson

    -Oliverio

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  3. AnonymousDecember 30, 2023 at 8:46 AM

    What, no mustard?

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