Seven Words From From The Eldest Of ... Seven Glass Siblings

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Guilt is an imperfect form

of knowledge

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J.D. SALINGER

Seymour, An Introduction

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My Impersonation Of A Poem By John Updike

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FAUX UPDIKE

My son's bicycle is

in the driveway

with a flat tire

but the air pump

is in the trunk

of his mother's car

The 1968 Red Corvette

 was part

of the divorce settlement

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© PAUL OLIVERIO

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Also Known As *** The Last Song Of The Century ***

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New Yorker Magazine Dated ... OCTOBER 11, 2021 ...

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I have seen 101

New Yorker Magazine covers

suitable for

museum display

but for 101

GodFather ofMath 

reasons,

the cover pictured below

is my 

All-Time Favorite:

 

 

 

I might have featured 

this cover before

but if so,

I wasn't cognizant of 

the date of issue

which brings to mind

the following copyrighted quote:

 

THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES

THERE ARE ONLY DIVINE PARALLELS

 

October 11, 2021

was my sister Linda's

seventy-fifth birthday

 

Her 1975 death certificate

notwithstanding,

 

I see/hear/feel

my older sister's touch

as many as seventy-five times

on any given day

 

Like our parents

who graduated this earth

four years before she did,

it is impossible for me to miss them

because no trio of people

is more omnipresent to me

than them

 

The divine parallel

of Lynda's 75th birthday

and a magazine cover

helped to make

my 75th birthday

[May 18,2024]

the happiest day

of my Long Beach life 

thanks to 

five hours of 

phone/text/email

conversation

with friends and family

+

the glorious generosity

and warmth

of Mrs. CarPeo

 

One of those conversations

was with my living sister

about whom 

I will say

nothing more than

she is sixty-eight

going on thirty-seven

even when she is in the presence 

of her six grandchildren

 

Wherever she goes,

chiropractors work overtime

because countless men

are turning their heads

much too quickly 

just to get 

one look at my

"little sister"

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

 

Cover Artist = Luci Gutierrez  

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A List Without Liszt For Obvious Reasons

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Franz Lizst is not included

on this hazy list

because the names you see are

Mathematicians not Musicians

 

The image of Charles Lewis Dodgson

appears but his name is unlisted

 

In the history of Numbers...

No other Mathematician

influenced me as much as 

Professor Dodgson

but not because

of what he did with chalk

on a blackboard

 

His boss at Oxford University

—Dean Liddell—

requested  Dodgson spend a lazy afternoon

on a canoe with (amongst others)

the Dean's daughter—Alice—

and out of thin air

Professor Dodgson 

created the story of 

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

 

But more than one canoe ride

was necessary to meet the satisfaction

of the very curious child

who was capable of getting

"curiouser and curiouser"

 

However, Dodgson did not want 

the world to know an Oxford "Don"

(on a canoe with the daughter of his boss)

was the story teller so Dodgson

created the name Lewis Carroll

 

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO

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100% Italian-American Chameleon

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I am a Bronx-born

second generation

Italian-American

and mighty gosh-darn 

proud to be so

HOWEVER, 

the best part

of my professional career

as a math teacher

occurred in 

South-Central Los Angeles

when I morphed into

a half-Black

half-Latino

human 

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Another Found Piece Of Lost Art ... Page 3

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Profile In Blue

*** CHARRY  SCURO ***

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St. Thomas Quaid

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He looks down upon

© Oliverio

the sky and the sea,

the birds and the three

men walking on the beach

 

He makes the clouds dance

the wall bleeds cement

and he knows 

when you are surfing

 

 

The verse above

is merely poetic praise

for a person whose generosity

and kindness defied 

human capacity

 

In seventy five years,

I have encountered countless

people who believed strongly

and sincerely in generosity

unless it was  a bad day 

when they are more likely 

to bite people

than to help them

 

But Tom Quaid never had such days

 

To qualify someone for Sainthood,

there must be evidence of a miracle

 

Seven days a week,

he went to church

 

Six days a week, Tom Quaid

carried a big fat wad of bills

in his pocket

But not on Sunday

because that is when countless Catholics

would have sucked dim dry

 

Tom Quaid was better known

and better loved than all the Priests

at St. Anthony RC Church in Long Beach

 

On Sundays, Tom was a Eucharistic Minister

meaning he administered the holy wafers

that are a symbol of the Lord's suffering

  

Here is the miracle:

A man known to have as much as $700 cash

in his pocket was never mugged, molested,

or stripped of his cash in a crime-ridden neighborhood

such as Downtown Long Beach

Gangsters of every race, color, and creed

ALL protected Tom Quaid from harm

in the fifteen years that I knew him

as a fellow volunteer in the Senior Center Library

 

Sounds like a miracle to me

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Why There Is So Much Paranoia About ... Artificial Intelligence

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The reason there is 

so much 

fear and paranoia

about Artificial Intelligence

is due to the fact

that we suffer from

a significant lack of

Genuine Intelligence

***

© OLIVERIO ©

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Now That Their 2024 Presidential Convention Has Ended ...

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Listening to President Biden at

the Democratic National Convention, filled me with 

a sense of pride

in being an American citizen

that—within memory—

I never felt so strongly

 

However,

memory is not

the most trustworthy instrument

but what follows is fact:

 

It was flattering to receive texts

from both the President

and the Vice President

of the United States

but each one

(along with uncountably many others)

were treated equally:

they were automatically deleted

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PhotoVerio #764: Let There Be Lights Rotated

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© Oliverio

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World Series Prediction With Few Hyperlinks + Much Slanguage

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Though it is impossible

to measure how much

"negative energy"

I have consumed

in rooting against

the baseball team

whose formative years

were spent in Brooklyn,

I predict 

the 2024 World Series

will feature 

the Mooky-fied Dodgers

+

 his cast of billionaires

against 

the  Hank Aaron-named Judge

+

his modern Bronx Bombers

 

The 6th game

of the series

will result in enough tears

being shed on  Jerome Avenue

to drown all the fishmongers there

but will result in

the future President Harris

naming Shohei Otani

Baseball Ambassador of America

 

With the possible exception of

the Lakers-Celtics rivalry,

no other rivalry in

American team sports

has given the World

as much excitement,

blood, sweat, and tears

as 

the NEW YORK YANKEES

and

the LOS ANGELES DODGERS

!!!

 

© Oliverio ©

 

You may disagree with

this prediction 

but please accept 

my advice and

do not waste a penny

betting AGAINST 

the Dodgers

until next season 

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Dedicated To Larry + Eleanor CarPeo ... (Comic Relief #5892)

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ED HIMMELBLAU

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RICHARD PRYOR Profundity ... Number 37

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Two things 

people throughout history

have had in common

are hatred and humor

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RICHARD PRYOR

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Eight Thousand GodFather Of Mathing Pages ... Fully Agree

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I regard autobiographies

as a pernicious form

of fiction

***

ROBERTSON DAVIES

!!!

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Salty Gigante + His Slugfest (Comic Relief #5889)

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GARY LARSON

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For Those Who Remember Macauley Culkin In HOME ALONE

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MAD MAGAZINE

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"Vacation" Ends With Discovery Of Lost Art ... Page 2

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Portrait of Oriolo Oxcart

CHARRY SCURO

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"Vacation" Ends With Discovery Of Lost Art ... Page 1

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Charcoal Octet

CHARRY SCURO

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Acrostic Neccessity

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I 

 

Now proclaim for your

Edification and my

Eternal happiness on this

Day:

 

A

 

Valuable departure

And most

Clinical

And

Timely

Interruption from

Oliverio blogitude

NOW ...

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Is There Any Religion For Which This Statement Is Not True?

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≈ ≈ ≈

Never in its whole history

has the Catholic Church

believed that poor people 

should do anything 

but go to church,

put money in the collection,

and do as they are told.

≈ ≈ ≈

DASHIELL HAMMETT

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A Pair Of HOOSiers ... A/k/a ... 2 Photos From Neil Hoos

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NEIL HOOS

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Is He A Mentor Of HOODA HELAMI?

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Under the streetlight

me moans and he rants:

There is no Paradise

There's only Hell in hot pants

***

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego #142857

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Bay Window Bandbox

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© PhotoVerio #763.5

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PhotoVerio #763: Midnight Foliage

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© Oliverio

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Your Programming Will Resume After These ... Messages

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There is no more 

television advertising

 

But 

we have Messages

about products

and services

guaranteed 

to improve your life

and your lifestyle

How many messages 

will be delivered

before returning

to your program

is determined 

by how quickly

you reach for

your credit card

to improve your life

and your lifestyle

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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JOHN UPDIKE Poem ... Tilted, Transparent And Revelatory

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JOHN UPDIKE

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PhotoVerio #762: Spaghetti Tree

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© Oliverio

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Palmistry ... Palm Is Tree

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©PhotoVerio #761.5

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PhotoVerio #761: Midnight At Sea Level

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© Oliverio

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PhotoVerio #760: The Lady In Blue ... In Waiting

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Norton Simon Museum Garden

© Oliverio         2017

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The Glorious Moment Of ... Sonny Boy White

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I gave a concert

by the sea

for the birds

and bees

and fronds

of palm trees

I blew hot

I blew cold

the harmonica was hummin'

no one in the audience

was human

But I could hear

fronds dancin'

birds romancin'

And what do you know

Everyone loved the show

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ________________________________________________________________________________________________

Words Of Wisdom From ... THE BEACH

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The pen is mightier than the sword

but no match for a gun

***

THE BEACHBOYS

Student Demonstration Time

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Quoting E. McBain ... A/k/a E. Hunter ... Born S. Albert Lombino

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Life is always full of next chapters,

Some of them never written

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ED McBAIN

Nocturne

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The Pomposity Of This Phrase ... According To Hooda Helami

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"As God is my witness"

is an obscenely pompous phrase:

—With all the insanity

this world has to offer—

it assumes "God"

is not busy enough

that he/she

is always paying attention

to YOU

and is always ready

to testify

on your behalf

***

© Hooda Helami ©

Alter Ego #142857

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Quoting The Godfather Of The Godfather

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Never expect gratitude

from a donkey 

or a peasant

***

MARIO PUZO

The Fortunate Pilgrim

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Double Tragedy

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A canoe capsizes and a drowning man

sends out distress signals.

 

In a nearby canoe,

the man in control

covers the ears

of his four-year-old son

because the distress signals

contain four-letter-words.

 

The capsized man dies

and twelve years later,

the former four-year-old

commits fratricide.

 

© OLIVERIO © 

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