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, December 4, 2024

OAKWOOD TOLUCA LAKE + My "Problem" With The F-Book

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There is a red dot
on the upper-left image
of a swimming pool
 
It marks the place where
I witnessed 
smiling
 with a transcendence
unavailable to mere mortals
and her humble servant (me)
 
I was
standing poolside
at that moment
 
We talked 
for five minutes
 
Actually,
she did all the talking
and the listening post
heard the most gorgeous
"I love life" stream of words
but I can't remember
a single sentence
 
All I remember is
a neon-glowing smile
 
During a three month
1981 residence at
  I swam
AT LEAST 1000 laps
in that pool
where I could 
usually be found
at midnight
when the sculpted
body of water
was exclusively 
mine
 
But during 
daylight hours.
meaningful, philosophical 
poolside discussions
were a dime-a-dozen
 
 
Most of mine
were with someone
I will call
XYZ
 ***
 
Fast forward
forty-three years
and you arrive at
the month of
April
—2024—
when I received
an F-Book post
from XYZ
 
But it contained
—almost verbatim—
one of our "discussions"
with him writing like
a kiss-my-ring
monologist
 
 That email
inspired me to delete
every F-book post
since that day
including ones from people
whose ring
I was willing 
to kiss
 
I do this 
because in 1981,
my best friend
at Oakwood
[another New York expatriate]
was having a torrid
sexual affair
with the wife of XYZ
while he was poolside
with yours truly
 ***
 
I will neither
copyright nor sign
this page
because
 I truly believe
this "problem"
could have written about
by at least 100
people 
 with an equal measure
of truth

The only adjustment to fact
I presented here 
was the name
XYZ 
 
Whille the F-book people
 spray or spew 
their words
and ideas
on a screen
in their home,
their partners
or spouses 
are sharing 
their bodies 
    elsewhere       
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2 comments:

  1. Maybe there is truth to the rumor
    that Facebook was created by the IAA:
    the International Association of Adulterers.

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    1. Olivero is more than willing to spread that rumor

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