And I've Got Three Grammys

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I've got three Grammys

because one of my Grampys

married twice

and that's nice

!!!

 

© Paul Oliverio ©

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I've Got Five Emmy Nominations

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I've got  five Emmy Nominations

and I keep them in a jar

That way I'll always know

where they are

***

© Paul Oliverio ©

 

It

continues

here

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PhotoVerio #926: Pointillist Beach

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***

© Oliverio

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PhotoVerio #925: Hello New Jersey, Goodbye New York

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© Oliverio

3000 miles 

to 

Long Beach

+

the end of my

bachelorhood

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Defining This Blog In Exactly Ten Lines Of Verse

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This, that 

or the other thing

 

Rock, Jazz,

 Bach or Swing

 

Never in need

of an autograph:

 

Can't say the same

for a laugh

 

Or a quality

photograph

 

***

 

© PAUL OLIVERIO © 

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I Think Of This Bridge Every Day

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THE WHITESTONE BRIDGE

 

It has to do with

growing up

one-tenth of a mile

from

the last exit

before The Bronx

+

spending 300 quality

Sundays

in that borough

+

smoking my first cigarette

in Whitestone Park

where I was the 

Barefoot Handball Champion

of 1961 

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PhotoVerio #924: We'll Talk

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We'll talk

when you learn

how to listen

© Oliverio ©

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What Everybody Needs

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Willy Nile

Featuring Mike Hammer

Featuring Hammer & Nailles

 

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Dream Along With Mr. Woodrow J. Cat

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!!!

© PhotoVerio #922.5

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PhotoVerio #922: Whitestone Background

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*** © Oliverio © ***

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Ten ATWOOD Authorities Name Their Favorite Book

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Ten professorial authorities

named ten different 

ATWOOD books

as their favorite

But

when asked which title

had the best chance

of selling the most books

ALL agreed it had to be

The Handmaid's Tale

 ***

 

It  has an incredibly

 jazzy rhythm

and 

this non-authority

[but insanely big fan]

recommends reading it

while listening to

Horace Tapscott

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Mural By An Unknown Artist

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One Level Below LB Terrace Theater

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PhotoVerio #921: Hop To It

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© Oliverio

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Why HOODA HELAMI Loves Jean Paul Sartre

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Somewhere out there

is you

Somewhere in here

is me

So why not think of us

as a We

 

But 

I mean that only

existentially

***

HOODA HELAMI

Alter Ego #142857

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I Begin This Month With Humility

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Fulfilling 

my promise

to finish reading

Margaret Atwood's

The Handmaid Tale,

places my eyes

in the presence

of an

extraordinary author

 

The rest of me

is someone 

who scribbles

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