All I Want To Do ...

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All I want to do

is climb this tree

to escape

the Great American

insanity

I think about it

all day and night:

a simple desire

in 

black + white

© PhotoVerio #779.5

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The Photography of NEIL HOOS ... Page 2

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NEIL HOOS

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The Photography of NEIL HOOS ... Page 1

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NEIL HOOS

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4-Word Cliche Updated + Dedicated It To ... Mr. T

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LET BYGONES 

BE BYGONES

and

Let eye gone be 

the new blindness

and 

Let I gone crazy

be the new sanity

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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A Third Posting Of A Song Written By ... JACK McCARTHY

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Since this song

has now been heard

in at least ten

different countries,

[formally introduced in three]

 

Jack's former 

7th grade classmate

will post it for the third time

THE STORM IS COMING

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The Importance Of Being DONALD ... In His Own Words

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I was the 45th President

and am presently

the 47th President

 

NONE 

of my predecessors

would ever be mistaken

for an altar boy

 

NONE 

of my predecessors

had any fewer

tricks up their sleeve

than I have

 

Sooner or later,

one of us

had to be caught

with his hands in 

too many cookie jars

 

One of us

had to become

a convicted felon

while the rest of us

were nothing but lucky

 

Let it be me

a/k/a

"Mr. Unlucky"

***

 

American politicians

 without felonious behavior

in their past or present

are guaranteed 

to be failures

as

public servants

because they will not know

which laws to avoid  

***

 

Mr. T

[of the 21st Century]

 

 

 

© OLIVERIO ©  

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Slightly Corrupted Sonnet Written By ... Mrs. CarPeo

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***

Coddle the criminal

and give a free pass

 guarantee-ing  no shoplifter

falls on his/her ass

If jailbirds want 

a sex change,

it's on our dime

making soft tissue

of hard time

The last thing

we ought to do

is give everyone in jail

a free

Kamala tattoo

***

 

© Mrs. CarPeo ©

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ROBIN GREEN ... I Love You ... Page 4

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***

This page 

is an open letter 

 to Robin Green

It was inspired by HER

witnessing the most famous

magazine cover photo

of Rolling Stone

ever taken:

 

John and Yoko Lennon

were photographed

in full-frontal nudity

AND

the singular word

most associated 

with that couple is

 

IMAGINE

*

*

*

 

Dear Robin

Imagine 

you and your husband,

Mitchell Burgess,

received this

Oliverio-copyrighted 

material

desperately in need

of expansion:

 

The Premier Geezer 

Folk Music Festival

at Magic Mountain

is highlighted by

an updated version of

Puff The Magic Dragon

by a trio entitled

Eric, Lyle, and Merry

 

The triple-width

wheel-chaired act

consisted of two 

convicted murderers

and a woman

—Merry Clayton—

with a six-octave range

 

Merry's claim to fame is

her soaring voice

was featured on 

The Rolling Stones'

Gimme Shelter

in 1969

 

Some of the lyrics 

are reprinted below:

Puff, the magic dragon

is a blunt thing

we know all about.

Justice for killing parents

has finally burnt out.

  

© OLIVERIO ©

  ***

 

But I will waive 

all copyright considerations

if Robin Green 

+

Mitch Burgess

make the whole damn thing

into a workable script

 

Sincerely,

Paul Oliverio

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Mr. T ... Has Only One Major Flaw

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The Institute of Inane Research

has determined

that an unwritten clause

in the 

United States Constitution

mandates 

that every President

lies exactly 37 percent

of the time

The remaining 63 percent 

of the time,

they are obligated to do

all of the following:

 

1

 Disappear from public view

 

 2

Talk jabberwocky

 

3

Be seen with a cute dog

as often as possible

 

4

Attend celebratory dinners

for world leaders

but always sit within reach

of three barf bags

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In his first Presidential term,

Mr. T

did all of these things

 but

the his only major flaw

is having DRS

[Digital Reversal Syndrome]

Instead of lying 37%

of the time,

he is lying 73%

of the time

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___

 

27% of the time,

he speaks the Pure Truth

either by explicitly stating 

how much he loves himself

OR

implicitly stating

how much he loves

your credit cards

____

____

 

If ever there was

a US President

or 

a World Leader

without a major flaw,

he or she

bypassed our solar system

 

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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I Salute You Mr. T ... You Will Make America Grate Again

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I begin with an apology

for the creatively-spelt word

in the title

BUT

I sincerely wish

unlimited success to 

the 47th Person 

to live in 

the White House

AND

thank him

for granting me 

the Executive Privilege

 to address him as

Mr. T

 

That privilege

entitles me to

provide the only 

hyperlink 

on this page

to a 4-time

Superbowl Champion

 

The only negative thing

about this 

Pittsburgh Steeler icon

is his attempt to teach

Terry Bradshaw

English grammar

 

 

The name of this

1989 inductee to

the NFL Hall of Fame

is

MEL BLOUNT

🏈 🏈  🏈 🏈 

 

He wore #47

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ROBIN GREEN ... I Love You ... Page 3.5

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***

In no way

have I forgotten you

—Robin Dearest—

The 4th page 

of this tribute

to you

has encountered some delays

 

It's about

two very handsome

young men

who were jailed

—without parole—

35 years ago

 

They were convicted

of killing both parents

 

HOWEVER,

it has since been discovered

that their father 

spanked both of them

when the brothers

refused to eat their 

Foie gras

and demanded cheeseburgers

from McDonalds

 

The only person

to witness the spanking

was their mother

who put them to bed 

immediately

denying

her 7 and 10 year-old

offspring

any ice cream

 

This spanking occurred 

exactly once

and no other

evidence

of child abuse

of Erik and Lyle

has ever

been documented

  

***

Sincerely,

💜 Paul Oliverio 💜

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As A Result Of Yesterday's Presidential Election ... Thank You #47

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In the United States,

NOW

 is a great time

to not be poor

 

And if poverty

is miles behind 

your rear view mirror,

it is even better

 

BUT

if you are now poor

in the United States,

the new President 

offers you

his initials

and wishes you a 

swell time with the 

DT's

or their 

non-alcoholic

cousins

 

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

***

***

 

As for me,

I congratulate the man

who is BOTH

President #45

+

President #47,

Grover Clevelanding

his way around

President Biden,

who ended our 20-year

unwinnable "War"

in 

Afghanistan

but there was 

no parade 

to celebrate 

the accomplishment

 

(Criticism of his effort

more than compensated

for its absence)  

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QUINCY JONES ... Rest In Peace

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 ***

 

On the previous page

I wrote about the virtues of

repeated non-stop

listening to

select pieces of music

 

Never before

[nor since]

did I ever do so

AND

simultaneously

create something

of tangible,

practical and aesthetic use:

 

I paneled the wall

framing sliding doors

to the patio

of a San Diego condominium

with "furring strips" of wood

—from floor to ceiling—

while listening to

Michael Jackson's

THRILLER

which was produced by

Quincy Jones

 

30 years later

[after moving to Burbank],

I revisited that condo

which my then ex-wife

had sold 

to an Egyptian man

who welcomed me,

insisting I join him

for a cup of tea

 

NOTHING

in my former 

two storey/two bedroom

home

looked the same

except for 

the "furring strip" wall

leading to the patio

 

For this reason,

I am eternally grateful to

QUINCY JONES

and commented accordingly

on the previous page

 

My new Egyptian friend

—Muta Ali—

telephoned me in Burbank

the following month

inviting me to his home

so we could play tennis

on the court

right outside his door on

140 Candace Place

Vista, CA 92083

 

Muta beat the living bejesus

out of me in

two humiliating sets

but I can still taste

the Hibiscus tea

we drank on his patio

after the match

 

Dear Reader:

allow to ask 

Quincy Jones

—who died yesterday—

a simple question

about his life

in the After-life:

 

Can you really 

rest in peace

after producing

some of the greatest 

dance music

human beings

have ever known

???

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Another Un-Acronymed Quote About GOD

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***

JEROME DAVID SALINGER

 

Earlier this week,

Oliverio re-read the quote

that nearly

knifed his teaching career

in south-Central Los Angeles

before it began

BECAUSE

he preferred being respected

to being liked

***

 

Other than to say

that this page

is the perfect prelude

to a Quincy Jones

tribute page,

Oliverio refers the reader

to the first comment

below

↓

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Why We Settle For Artificial Intelligence ... (Comic Relief #6015)

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GARY LARSON

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ROBIN GREEN ... I Love You ... Page 3

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***

***

Indisputably,

the most important script-writer

in Robin's life is

Mitchell Burgess,

her husband and co-creator

of 

Blue Bloods

Indisputably,

second-most is 

David Simon,

who authored 

exactly one episode of 

Northern Exposure

Then

 Italian-American Mr. Simon

conceived the idea

of a television series about

a Mafia boss with

a psychotherapist

Perfectly sniffing out

major talent when he sees it,

David hired

Robin and Mitchell

as scriptwriters for

THE SOPRANOS

 

It's been said that

getting along with

David Simon is akin to

gargling with sandpaper

 

However,

what most bonded 

Robin + David

was a mutual

fiery hatred

of their mothers

 

Therefore,

this page is dedicated to 

NANCY MARCHAND,

the actress portraying

Livia Soprano,

mother of 

Tony Soprano 

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Sunday With Nightmare-Inducing ... DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

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Who better to quote than 

the Brazilian grandmaster

of such quandries

*

*

The boxed quote below

is from 

The Book of Imaginary Beings

 

The author

 refers to a Swedish visionary

named

Emanuel Swedenborg

*

*

*

*

JORGE LUIS BORGES                          The Sylphs

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Quoting President #3 ... Two Days Before Presidential Election

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Ignorance is preferable to error

and

one is less remote 

from the truth

who believes nothing

than

one who believes

what is wrong

***

 

≈ THOMAS JEFFERSON ≈

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ARTE MORENO With A Real Brain ... This Is What He Would Do

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If the owner 

of the Analheim Angels

that embarrassing excuse

of a baseball team

 

had a genuine brain

and seriously intended to

put an actual, respectable

representative

of MLB

in Orange County

$

$

$

He would sign 

BOTH

Gerritt Cole

+

Sean Mananea

 

Unfortunately

—since purchasing the team—

and paying Mike Trout

a gazillion dollars

to suck his thumb

every summer

in New Jersey

[his home state]

 

 Arte Moreno

guides the team

with his wallet

zip-locked

in his rectum

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