PhotoVerio #1061: Something To Be Grateful For

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© Oliverio ©

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Naturalism + Pointillism

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+

 

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Dedicated to 

Otto Jensen 

 

He was

—both— 

my California father-image

+

my photography Guru 

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Richard Brautigan ... Poem #814257

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Pretend 

is a city

bigger than New York

+ 

bigger than

all the cities

at once.

 

≈  RICHARD BRAUTIGAN ≈

* 

 

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Rorschach Recruitment Center

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© Oliverio ©

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Before + After Roses Were Taken To The Bleach

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© Mrs. CarPeo ©

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Her Name Is ... SHERRY CHINLIPS

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 💗  

💗 

Every night 

since 2019,

 SHERRY CHINLIPS

slept 

against 

the skull

of her

long-dead husband

and

💗loved💗 

every

second

of it

💗💗 💗  

🖤

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Photograph

by

     © Paul Oliverio ©     

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Quoting From ... CONVERSATIONS WITH KAFKA

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*** 

Words are evil's 

strongest buttress.

 

They are 

the most reliable

 preservatives

  of 

every passion 

and stupidity.

*

 

One only 

pretends to be 

enjoying oneself,

stuffing up one's ears

with the wax

of pleasure.

*

 

I simulate gaiety

in order to

vanish behind it.

*

 

A man is only

fully aware of himself

when he is 

either in love

or 

danger of death.

 *

 

We live in

a morass of 

corroding lies

and illusions,

in which

terrible + monstrous

things happen

which journalists report

with amused objectivity

and

—without anyone noticing—

trample on the lives

of a million people

as if they were

worthless insects

[Gregor Samsa Society?]

 

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≈  FRANZ KAFKA  ≈

 

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Great + Glorious Foresight From ... Bard Of Baltimore

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H. L. MENCKEN

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PhotoVerio #1060: The Shopping Cart Sadie Twins

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© Oliverio ©

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Quoting ... H. L. MENCKEN

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Imagine 

the Creator

as a low comedian

and

at once the world 

becomes

explicable

*

 

Nature abhors a moron

*

 

The greatest artists

of the world

are never Puritans

and seldom respectable.

No virtuous man

has ever painted

a picture

worth looking at,

or 

written a symphony

worth listening to

or

a book worth reading

*

 

Love is the triumph

of imagination

over 

intelligence

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H.L MENCKEN 

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Midnight Staring Contest On My Patio

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Someone started 

a staring contest

on my patio

 

I think I won but the prize is TBD

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PhotoVerio #1059.5

 

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Tilted 1968 Poem + Source On Next Page

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© Oliverio ©

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PhotoVerio #1059: Parking Lot-Flavored Pretzel

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© Oliverio ©

 

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1973 Award-Winning Story

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A Great Day

For The

Beach

 

 

Mr. Limp

was a lonely

old man

who believed

nothing was true

until he could

disprove it

*

 

One sunny afternoon,

his neighbor said

It's a great day

for the beach,

wouldn't you

say so,

Limpo?

*

 

That is not true 

and I'll 

prove it

to you

said Mr. Limp,

whose nickname was

"Limpo"

*

 

To demonstrate

the strength

of

his contrariness,

Mr. Limp shook

the mighty apple tree

that grew in his yard

for close to

a century:

 

Lightning bolts

blossomed

from all its branches

and

thunder

thrashed through

the air

*

 

Rain splattered upon

Limpo

and his neighbor

and their 

entire

neighborhood

*

 

The Emergency 

Storm Patrol

arrived

with all its

modern

foul weather

devices:

 

Two men operated 

the 

Satchmo Suction Hose

that sucked

all the rain

out of the sky

 

The Musical 

Lightning Box

was ignited

to convert

thunder + lightning

into

beautiful music

that filled the air

 

The Saffron 

Sunshine Retriever

signaled to the sun

to 

come out of hiding 

*

 

You're right, neighbor

It is a great day

for the beach,

exclaimed 

 Mr. Limp   

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© Oliverio ©

 

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The award was presented

by 

Linda Marie Oliverio:

 

she bought cocktails

for the author

+ 

four of his buddies

(two of whom

were secretly in love

with my sister) 

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But Gold Is Such A Beautiful Color ❗❗❗

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Comic Relief #7068.5 

BILL BRAMHALL

  

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If Oliverio Were Given A Dubious Achievement Award

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*** 

 

Oliverio 

would be 

awarded for

his re-reading

Jules Feiffer's

crime fiction

parody

 

Naturally,

Paul 

had forgotten

101 percent

of 

a 300-page

novel

BUT

the second reading

involved

more than

fifty times

of picking up 

the book

and 

putting it 

down again

for reasons

too strange 

to mention 

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Bitterly ... Hooda Helami Humps JULES FEIFFER

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***** 

If you can't

eliminate the mother,

eliminate 

the Mother Tongue

*****

 

JULES FEIFFER

Ackroyd  

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 The world 

is 

full of

laughs

+ 

people

who 

talk in halfs:

 

Half 

of what they say

is 

jibberish

and 

the other half

is spoken into

the palm 

of their

left hand  

 

© Hooda Helami ©

Alter Ego #142857 

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My Book + Excerpts = 0 Links + 1/2 Truths + Apology

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Apology 

to

Richard Wright

for being snared 

by my

"artificial intelligence"

and

John Lee Williamson

is 

a neglected genius 
 

❗❗❗

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PhotoVerio #1058: Green-Eyed Intimacy

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© Oliverio ©

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He Won't Bite If You Feed Him Chocolate

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He

is a sucker

for

Hershey's Kisses 

© PhotoVerio #1057.5 ©

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PhotoVerio #1056: Nameless Thumbnail Collage

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© Oliverio ©

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Keezletown ... Inebriatedly Without Hyperlink

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Vincent King

told me this story:

 

For 

every thousand people

who know RICHMOND

only one knows

KEEZLETOWN

because

 

Mr. Richmond

+

Mr.Keezle

 had

a horse race

to determine

which one 

would get

the Shenendoah

county seat:

 

Keezle was so drunk,

he fell off his horse

 

Vincent 

is the deceased father

of 

my parents'

8

Great-Grandchildren

and

I miss

my living sister's

husband

dearly 

 

  

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Pope Leo's Alternative Headgear

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 He'd 

rather be 

wearing a

Chicago White Sox

baseball cap 

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Ten Addictions + Two Hyperlinks + Two Copyrights

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1

Starbucks 

 

 

2

Clipper Cigars

 

 

3

Novels

 

 

4

Mrs. CarPeo

 

 

5

Wordle 

 

6

Johnny Carson

 

 

7

Cheese

 

 

8

Diet Coke

 

 

9

© Number Theory ©

 

 

10

© aMErica ©

 

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The Carson link

has deleteable

advert

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He Played Three Chords ... Horrendously

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 People

tipped him

conditionally

He must stop playing until they are gone!

 

 

PhotoVerio #1055.5 

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The Logic Of ... ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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Two Pauls + One Finger ... Photograph By Kevin O'Grady

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Somewhere in Texas 

 Pointing to California

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—Late August, 1968— 

Paul Gretschel 

was making 

his 3rd trip

to California

But this time,  

he 

was  introducing

the state 

to 

the other Paul

+

Kevin O'Grady

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On one 

of his previous trips,

Gretschel scored some 

Haight Ashbury

LSD

and 

his current

traveling trio  

 imbibed

while discussing

Kierkegaard,

Walt Disney 

and 

Lyndon Johnson,

somewhere in

Missouri 

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Two blocks west 

of 

Junction Boulevard

—on Roosevelt Avenue—

was 

O'GRADY'S EIRE BAR

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That is where I met

Frannie Kafka

and 

Lollie Palooza,

who doubled as 

Brian Wilson's

inspiration for

Good Vibrations

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 In 2016,

I receive a phone call

from Long Island:

a friend had just read

Paul Gretschel

died 

the previous year

 

All attempts 

to locate 

Kevin O'Grady

were put to rest

at that time

but the memories

breath louder

every day 

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Bullet #226: Ethnic Pride

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Italians

did not

invent

crime

BUT

they made it

into

an 

art form  

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 © Oliverio © 

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Footnote

THE 226th BULLET

is 

the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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From HER Portfolio

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© Mrs. CarPeo ©

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Far Beyond ... Alice + Her Wonderland

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The 

Poetry 

of

LEWIS CARROLL

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