Construction Project

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You put an important word here

(HERE)

and an important word there

(THERE)

In a bowl,

mix verbs, adjectives, nouns...

(but no adverbs)

Stir constantly

Pour over the two words

(like a cheese sauce)

Add repetition with caution

or repeat yourself carefully

(whichever comes first)

But don't be a syllabully

Someone will call it a poem

(or not)

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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The Thirteenth Page In This Series

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We can't go on
meeting like this

The next page
in this series
is here

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The 132nd Bullet: The New Math

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If you spend half your life
regretting what you did
the other half of your life,
it will all add up to zero

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Footnote

THE 132nd BULLET
is the copyrighted property

of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

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Return Of DJ-verio ... #714285 ... Words From The Wolves

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The trouble with being in high places
Is when you fall it's a long way down

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LOS LOBOS 

The next

DJ-Verio page

is here

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A Poem Found In The Norton Anthology Grabbed My Attention

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My attention is a wild
animal: it will if idle
make trouble where there
was no harm: it will

sniff and scratch at the
breath’s sills:
it will wind itself tight
around the pulse

or, undistracted by
verbal toys, pommel the
heart frantic: it will
pounce on a stalled riddle

and wrestle the mind numb:
attention, fierce animal
I cry, as it coughs in my
face, dislodges boulders

in my belly, lie down, be
still, have mercy, here
is song, coils of song, play
it out, run with it.

***

A. R. AMMONS

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Another MUST SEE Photograph For Mr. CarPeo

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For whatever personal reasons,
we all have certain photographs

that our eyes demand

easy access to

One such personal photograph

was posted

here

Another is below this line

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There But For Bronze

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ONE evening there came into his soul

the desire to fashion an image of

The Pleasure That Abideth For A Moment. 

And he went forth into the world
to look for bronze.

For he could only think
in bronze.

But all the bronze of the whole world
had disappeared. 

Nowhere in the whole world

was there any bronze to be found,

save only the bronze
of the image of

The Sorrow That Endureth For Ever. 

Now this image he had himself,

and with his own hands, fashioned,

and had set it on the tomb

of the one thing

he had loved in life.

On the tomb of the dead thing

he had most loved
he  had set this image

 of his own fashioning,

that it might serve as a sign

of the love of man that dieth not,

and a symbol of the sorrow of man

that endureth for ever. 

And in the whole world

there was no other bronze

 save the bronze of this image.

And he took the image he had fashioned,

and set it in a great furnace,

and gave it to the fire.

And out of the bronze

of the image of

The Sorrow That Endureth For Ever 

he fashioned an image of

The Pleasure That Abideth For A Moment.

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OSCAR WILDE
The Artist

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The Vague But Beautiful Composite

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In the beginning,
when the world was young

there were a great many thoughts

but no such thing as truth.

Man made the truths himself

and each truth was a composite

of a great many vague thoughts.

All about in the world
were the truths

and they were all beautiful.

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SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Winesburg, Ohio

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Return Of DJ-verio ... #571428 ...Beyond The Eyes Of Man

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Many a man has built his own temple

shown to convey his grace and skill

having red domes and pillars and arches

all fashioned to fit his will.

When over men observe its beauty

they stand and see and sigh and say

"Great is your work, oh yes, oh builder

your fame shall never fade away"

CHUCK BERRY
Eyes Of Man

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The next DJ-verio
page is
here 

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Skinny Sally Cableboot And The Rooftop Singers

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NOW APPEARING

...up on the roof above...
the

LONG BEACH

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Skinny Sally + the Rooftop Singers
  
L to R:

Pedro Gromet, SALLY, Wally Honker
performing
The Bike Skulpcha Boogie  

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Footnote
The 2007 photograph is the copyrighted property
of Paul Oliverio and the LCSoL
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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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