A Model Poet + Her Appreciation: Akhmatova And Modigliani

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One goes in straightforward ways,
One in a circle roams:
Waits for a girl of his gone days,
Or for returning home.

But I do go -- and woe is there --
By a way nor straight, nor broad,
But into never and nowhere,
Like trains -- off the railroad.
Anna Akhmatova
One Goes In... 

 
Artist: 
Amadeo Modigliani

Model:
Anna Akhmatova


Modigliani was born 
on July 12, 1884.

He died in 1920. 

Akhmatova was born 
in 1887.

This is what the model
wrote about the artist:

He seemed to me encircled with a dense ring
of loneliness. 
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This Is Not...This Is...(TIN/TI #9)

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  ⬅ THIS IS NOT  
   a famous image 
   of Che Guevara

THIS IS ⬇

a famous image

  of Che Guevara

The next page in this series is  here.

However, 

both images 
 
were created by 
 
the photographer 
 

known as  Korda. 

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Spets + Steps

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Spets

are images


of steps


rotated

 
180˚ 


thereby preserving length and width.

Steps 

can be 

images 

of spets 

rotated 

180˚

but always...There is vanity ➜

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Footnotes
SPETS + STEPS and the two images are the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

SPETS + STEPS is the longest  palindrome  to appear
in the GodFather of Math trilogy. 

Without reflective surfaces, vanity would not exist.

Without reflective surfaces,  it would be impossible
to go through the looking glass.

Without a last footnote, this page would never end.

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Somewhere Within My Zip (90802)

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LONG BEACH - Master builder  Ed Diment  poses beside
 the world's longest Lego brick model ship of the Queen Mary,
on board the actual Queen Mary in Long Beach, California
on July 3, 2015. The Lego model ship measures 26 feet,
weighing over 600 pounds and consists of 250,000 Lego pieces.

AFP Photo/  Frederic J. Brown

© artdaily.org

The caption above is verbatim

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The Stool-Sitting Cousins Of The Shadoe Sisters

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© Oliverio (2x)
Five Photoverios for Otto Jensen 

Somewhere

the light

will shine

and...  

Smoothies


will


be


smoother.                  












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Footnotes
Regarding the hyperlink, Mr. Jensen was the greatest 101-year-old photographer
to ever get run over by a 91-year-old woman in Burbank.

Only six people not named Oliverio influenced my life as much as  Otto Jensen. 
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A Raymond Carver Poem

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THE COBWEB

by Raymond Carver

A few minutes ago, I stepped onto the deck
of the house. From there I could see and hear the water,
and everything that’s happened to me all these years.
It was hot and still. The tide was out.
No birds sang. As I leaned against the railing
a cobweb touched my forehead.
It caught in my hair. No one can blame me that I turned
and went inside. There was no wind. The sea
was dead calm. I hung the cobweb from the lampshade.
Where I watch it shudder now and then when my breath
touches it. A fine thread. Intricate.
Before long, before anyone realizes,
I’ll be gone from here.


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Footnotes
If Mr. CarPeo did not have Mrs. CarPeo in his life,
this page would not exist.

If Mr. CarPeo did not have Mrs. CarPeo in his life,
he would have stopped breathing years ago.
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Spraya, Swingem & Scissa: The Shadoe Sisters

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© Oliverio
Half-Full

© Oliverio
Half-Notes

© Oliverio
Half-Circumcised

and three-fifths complete.
The other two-fifths are  here. 

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Photoverio © (#114): The Cupholder Awaits The Dawn

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Or 5AM, whichever comes first.

When Starbucks opens its doors,

they baristas pour out all those lattes

they frap all their  ccinos,
and they vent all their Ventes...

All those cups of coffee–
or coffee-based cups–
have to fit 
somewhere

© Oliverio

Did you hear the one about the daughter 
of a Founding Father of Starbucks:

She had a 550 on her Math SAT pre-test
and then got a 730 on the actual test.

But her tutor was seriously disappointed.

I know this for a fact because 
the tutor was me:
THE GODFATHER OF MATH.

This happened in December, 2008.

The Father of the student was responsible
for some of the first fine art to grace the walls
of the first 500 Starbucks. 

This Founding Father of  was an elder 
to visionary (and CEO) George Schultz
and his name rhymes with  faults. 

His daughter should have had 
at least a 760 on her Math SAT
but her mother refused to take 
my input seriously.

But if you know a high school student
who wants a 700 score or above on the Math SAT,
please contact this website. 

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Benjamin Franklin & The Brignac Sisters

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To the Brignac sisters, Ben Franklin bequeathed 
a very small fraction of his estate. 

Mr. Franklin called them his dancing bears 
and they called him big bad Benny.
 
Anise had an IQ of 1776. 

The inferior intelligence of her sister 
was an IQ of only 1492. 

Bette wore colonial leggings cut shorter 
than had ever been seen in the colonies 
and thereby invented hot pants. 

Her first lover was a slave named James Brown. 

The first postmistress sold more  postage stamps 
per hour than any postmaster in the history 
of the United States. 

“B. Free Franklin” was the postmark, 
technically stamped by a slave named James Brown.
 
After the American Revolution, the Brignac sisters
lived in an ostensibly free society but strict 
behavioral guidelines morally 
restricted their gender. 

However, the word “sub-servient” 
was not in the Brignac dictionary. 

Anise married Sammy Adams and drove him 
so crazy, he had to brew his own beer.
 
To the descendents of Bette and Anise, 
that small fraction of money just kept 
getting “improperly”–ha!–
larger and larger. 

To be continued upon request
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Seven And Seven Is...

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© Oliverio
When I was a boy 
I thought about the times I'd be a man
I'd sit inside a bottle and pretend 
I was in a can

Lyrics by Arthur Lee

An example

of why

Arthur Lee

is the most

neglected 

genius of

Rock n' Roll








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Brooklyn Baseball Team With No Bats Or Balls But With Gavel

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This is the 1860

Brooklyn Atlantics

team baseball card

The Atlantics were a founding member 
of the National Association of Base Ball Players–
the sport's first organized league that held 
the championship from 1859 through 1861.

The card is a photograph mounted on a 2.5" x 4" cardboard
...probably taken in a Brooklyn photo studio. 

An undated newspaper clipping pasted to the back 
lists the players' names. 

The card will be auctioned on July 30th.

This is a seminal artifact, not just of baseball, 
but of American history, 

said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. 

It ranks with the most significant mementos 
of the sport's infancy ever to surface and is, 
quite possibly, the only team card on Earth 
printed before the first drop of blood 
was spilled in the American Civil War.
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Photoverio © (#113): No Man Or Woman

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© Oliverio
Not what she thought
(2015) 

No man
or  woman
was ever created

Without
a handicap

At birth
all of us need
a chair with wheels

Some of us
need it longer than that


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Exorcise With Exercise

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Anxiety and stress are Satan's go-fers

gang-tackling  Peace of Mind

Do your best to treat them unkind:

Drown them in a swimming pool, 

stroke by stroke

Squash them with your feet

step-by-step

Walking or jogging

Exercise to exorcise

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Footnote

EXORCISE WITH EXERCISE  is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

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Wind Them Up And Bang The Gavel

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Early 20th-century German wind-up toys 
are included in RSL's July 11-12 
antique toy and bank auction.

© artdaily.org

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Photoverio © (#112): The Pole & The Palm Tree

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© Oliverio
Pfeiffer Pfunday
# 28 

They preach
before they
take flight

But where will
they sleep
tonight?


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