Photoverio #380: Botanical Bronze

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© Oliverio
Bdwy (e. of Linden) 

When nature is bronzed
like a pair of baby shoes
metaphors provide
funny news:

Artichokish foliage
is the backdrop
for a splay of fingers
that could have
belonged to
E.T 



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STREET ART UTOPIA #41: Swimmer With A Straw

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Chris Wiedmann


The next page
in this series
is  here

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Fine Dining For 2-Legged OR 4-Legged

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480 Pine
5 Stars from
Yolanda Yelpa

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Photoverio #379: May This Cup Tip In Your Favor

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OR

if you like Freedom of Choice

We offer this

previously unpublished

image:

© Oliverio (2x)
Hazeburg Coffeehouse
(2006) 

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The 131st Bullet: From The Innermost Sanctum

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A prayer is nothing more
than a phone call
made from the cell phone
of our innermost sanctum.

Hopefully, it is a smart phone
and we do not say anything
too stupid.

But there might be hell to pay
if we dial the wrong number.

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Footnote

THE 131st BULLET
is the copyrighted property

of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

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Pound For Pound: A Most Beautiful And Most Relevant Poem

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The eyes of this dead lady
speak to me.

For here was love, 

was not to be drowned out.

And here was desire,

not to be kissed away.

The eyes of this dead lady

speak to me.

***

Ezra Pound 
The Picture

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Photoverio #378: I Carried This Prop To The Roof

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© Oliverio
And got a Hernia from LOVE 

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*From The Tom Waits Wing Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame*

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I used to be your favorite drunk
Good for one more laugh
Then we both ran out of luck
Luck was all we ever had
You put on a uniform
To fight the Civil War
You looked so good I didn't care
What side you're fighting for

___

LEONARD COHEN

A Street

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*Footnotes*
The subtitle of this page is
The Return of DJ-verio #428571
Street Talk

The DJ-verio series
continues
here  
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The Hafnotts + The Ayntgotts + The Rose Bush Looking Glass

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The  Hafnott family

and the Ayntgott family

each with cans of pork and beans

were picknicking

in the park

A row of rosebushes

separated the families

The Hafnotts

looked at the Ayntgotts

and vice versa

Mr. Hafnott said

"You are no different from us"

Mr. Ayntgott said

"You is the same as us"

Mrs. Hafnott said

"The only difference..."

"...is some silly syllables"

replied Mrs. Ayntgott

Then the  families

gathered their resources together,

sitting at a table

in the middle of the rose bushes

:::

After eating,

their children played games

in the park

while the parents

sat and talked and laughed

until the sun went down
***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

THE HAFNOTTS + THE AYNTGOTTS

+ THE ROSEBUSH LOOKING GLASS

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

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The Sum Total Of Zero

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When the sum total

of your secrets
is zero

It is time to invest

in the worship of
a hero

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

THE SUM TOTAL OF ZERO

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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The 130th Bullet: Basic Symbolism

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As technology thrusts forward
and science penetrates the future,
remember that Progress
is our most symbolic phallus.

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Footnote

THE 130th BULLET
is the copyrighted property

of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

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This Is NOT An Epitaph

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He was a team player

only when he could be

the team captain

or the team mascot.

Sometimes, he was both.
...

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

A TWO SENTENCE STORY

IN SEARCH OF A CLOSING PARAGRAPH

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

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Revisiting A Siamese Cat Named Pythagorus

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Memories of my first cat

in California are vague and hazy:

befitting the image below

In December of 1984,

I was a marginally employed

mathematician immersed

in a research project based

on the Pythagorean Theorem

A friend gave me 

a furry, pre-named

Christmas gift

  

The research project morphed into
this published paper

My feline family morphed into
what was last seen
here

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Photo #377: Bravado On The Corkboard

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© Oliverio
Yogur T. Pretzellman

 

With my pretzel face
and childproof torso
I aim to please
more and than
more so

With wire twister arms
and raisin feet
I am so cute
so cool and
so neat

You've seen me before
this I know
on a page
also named
Photoverio

But I can't see you,
need I mention,
because this image
lacks a third dimension

On your parade
I mean not to rain
but being two-dimensional
I can feel no pain

No eyesight
no memory:
without third dimension
I am compromisingly free

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Footnote
BRAVADO ON THE CORKBOARD
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
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The 129th Bullet: Pity The Child

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Pity the child who rebels against

hard-working, educated parents

by becoming neither.

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Footnote

THE 129th BULLET
is the copyrighted property

of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

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