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, July 4, 2025

Yesterday's Near-Death Experience

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Just because
today is
the 4th of July,
I do not need
the New York Times
to congratulate me
***


WORDLE
is the brilliant evolution
of 
which I was introduced to
when Eisenhower
was President
 
The hyperlinked puzzle
was shared with
at least
1000 people
since then
 
In all respects but one,
yesterday was a beautiful day
—however—
my third Wordle streak
of more than 
130 days
came to an end
+
a tangible state
of deep depression
overwhelmed me
 
Without a late night
"Genius" 
level word
on 
the Spelling Bee Puzzle
that depression
could have reached
deadly proportions
 
My oversized ego
thought death
might claim me
on July 4th
as it did for
+
 
They both died
exactly 199 years ago 
today
!!!
 
The laughable conclusion
to this very Father-centric
blogger is that
the correct answer
to yesterday's Wordle
was
  
POPPY
!!! 

 
My therapist
demands 
I direct
your attention
to his comment 
below
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1 comment:

  1. Conspicuously absent from Paul's page is
    any hyperlinks directly related to the New York Times
    or any of its puzzles.
    But knowing the "author" for more than sixty years,
    the reason is quite simple: his paranoia about
    that powerhouse newspaper further downgrading
    his Wordle/Spelling Bee statistics
    would devastate my patient.

    Or they could do worse:
    deny Paul access to either puzzle.

    Were either of the above to happen,
    our therapy sessions would become pure blather about SUDOKU,
    literature, his Appalachian Dulcimer and the semi-pro status
    of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team.

    -James F. Raft, psychotherapist-

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