The 171st Bullet: Mass Production

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Mass production

keeps the corporate coffers

copulating with

profit.

  

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Footnote

THE 171st BULLET

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Dr. Rorschach, This Is How I See It ...

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I see  

the Lost Continent of CarWashia

with its sexy, sudsy

mermaids

©    Oliverio   ©

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The Baby's Breath Looks Like It's Got Baby Measles

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But it's a bouquet for HER

and this image will look a whole better

in YelpLand

©     Photoverio # 619.5    ©

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Photoverio #718: Kiss Me

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© Oliverio

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When Irony Wears High-Heel Sneakers

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The 2022 Wimbledon Tournament

refused to allow 

Russian players

to participate

But winner

ELENA RYBAKINA

was born in

Moscow

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THE WORDS FALL ... A Sonnet

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The words fall

out of her mouth

in no particular order

Fact or tact

sweet praise

or poison dart

Shouted 

or whispered

cute comment

or left jab

Put you 

on a pedastal

or put you

on a slab

***

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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Quoting "The Bad Boy Of Art Criticism"

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Being a critic is like

being a medium,

when it comes on you

you can't not do it.

***

DAVID HICKEY

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Authenticated And Sold By Sotheby's But Now Dumpster-Bound

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!!!

Read All About It

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Two More 3-Rose Images For HER

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© Oliverio (2x)

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Photoverio #717: Sad-Eyed Lady Of Roseland

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© Oliverio

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Three Examples For Readers Of Existential Fiction Masterpieces

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On this page,

it was proclaimed that

Saul Bellow's HERZOG

was Jean Paul Sartre's NAUSEA

at the Comedy Club

 

Below,

there are three examples

from HERZOG

to support

that proclamation:

 

1

Literate people appropriate

all the best things

they can find in books

and dress themselves in them

just as certain crabs

beautify themselves

with seaweed.

 

2

He tried to make

his lust comical,

to show how absurd

it all was,

easily the most wretched form

of human struggle,

the very essence of slavery.

 

3

A man may say

"From now on, I am going

to speak the truth."

But the truth hears him

and runs away and hides

before he's even done speaking.

 

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YESTERDAY And TOMORROW Were Talking About TODAY

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Today

is the actual 

4th of July

 

Excessive consumption

of beer 

and potato salad

are the order 

of the day

but the conversation

was exclusively about 

Paul Oliverio.

:::

YESTERDAY said

"He was on hiatus."

TOMORROW said

"His hiatus is long gone."

 

YESTE said to TOM

"Why are we talking about this?"

 

TOM replied to YESTE

"It was required by Dr. Raft."

 

Y:

"Should the readers care about this?"

 

T:

"Only if they care about a narcissist

whose fireworks are all duds."

 

Y:

"When the alternative

is being a Dude."

 

T + Y:

"Enough said."

 :::

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO © 

 :::

 

In a comment on the previous page,

Dr. Raft advised me

to "explain"

the hiatus 

on a blog page

 

If anyone fell asleep

reading this yawn-worthy page,

think how much cheaper

that was than 

buying sleeping pills

 

A SAFE & HAPPY

4th OF JULY

to anyone who has

read this far

 🎆 🎆 🎆   

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MEMORY And PRIDE Were Talking To Freddy

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Memory says

"I did that."

 

Pride replies

"I could not have done that."

 

Eventually,

memory yields.

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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Art Addition = 1918 Kafka Quote + 1937 Magritte Paintings

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*

A cage went in search of a bird

* *

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In Advance Of July 4th Vacation ... Add Your Own Images

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This is a day

for fun and play

with firework display

Celebrating every 

him and her

you and me

—all of us—

And a well-earned

GoFather of Math

hiatus

But I won't be

baying at the moon

 

I shall return

soon

***

©  PAUL OLIVERIO  ©

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