O How Sexy Soma, Lea

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Oh how sexy

to be in Somalia

and be a

Navy Seal

How good it

must feel

(except for the dead one)

No smarter forces

in reality

that is real

Than to be

a Navy Seal

You are beyond

uber-Special:

Mensas are mincemeat

if you compare gradin'

Only YOU

could take out

Bin Laden

YOU: the most uber

uber Special group

But there is a loop:

YOU are just another

American military presence

trying to knock sense

into another nation's defence

But it is not wise

regardless of your size

to improvise

with gun

(I refer again to the dead one)

Just more American military

in another nation

inching us closer

to global devestation

But in closing

i only say

Have a nice day

Have fun

Today

because

Tomorrow

   may be the last one

On earth

as we have known it

before them and us

nuke it

To dust

if they must

© PAUL OLIVERIO

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From Bebe's Homage To Eric's Declaration

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I smoked my first cigarette at ten
And for girls, I had a bad yen
And I had quite a ball
When I was young

When I was young, 

it was more important
Pain more painful
Laughter much louder
Yeah, when I was young
 

When I was young

I met my first love at thirteen
She was brown and I was pretty green
And I learned quite a lot when I was young
When I was young

Eric Burdon 

The Animals
were the blusiest
of the British Invsaion bands
that followed on the heels
of The Beatles' trajectory

ERIC is also the inspiration 
for the verse
I AM THE EGGMAN

The Animals were also 
the band who gave birth
to the term FOLK ROCK
because of their rendition of
House of the Rising Sun  

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Footnote
Documentaries about bands and the music
from the Sixties never fail to intrigue
but NONE is better than
"Eric Burdon: The Animals and Beyond."

Four reasons being:

1.
Backstory about Chuck Berry
and Jerry Lee Lewis on a British tour.

2.
What Eric has to say about his friend
Jimi Hendrix that no alleged Hendrix authority
ever stated so clearly.

3.
What happened when Nina Simone
met Eric Burdon whose cover of
House of The Rising Sun
was modeled after her rendition
of the same song.

4.
The price of poor management
of an institution.

The next GoFather/Cigaret
page is
here. 

Two words in closing:
Sky Pilot 
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Frazier Asks And Bebe Tells ... On Behalf of ALL Cigaret Fiends

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In an episode entitled Where There's Smoke There's Fired,

Frazier Crane asks [his agent] Bebe:

"What is so wonderful about smoking?"

Here is her response:

To watch the entire episode–
a very worthwhile experience–
click  there.

The next goFather/cigaret
page is
nearby.  
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No One Holds [HKu #36]

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Everybody embraces something.
No one holds on to anything.

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Footnotes

NO ONE HOLDS

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL.

The next GoFather Haiku page is
Here. 

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Fear Of Toxins and Vanity Are ... More Important Than Religion

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Google numbers speak the truth.

Popularity and importance can be measured

by how many websites are linked

to a particular term.

The acronym below stands for

Genetically Modified Organisms

A simple Google search

yielded the following numbers: 

GMO → 103,000,000 websites 
Makeovers → 68,000,000 websites

Jesus Christ Almighty → 1,240,000 websites

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Apples, Peaches, Stomach And Eye [HKu #35]

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The apple of your eye
delights more than
the peach pit of your stomach.

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Footnotes

APPLES, PEACHES, STOMACH AND EYE

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The next GoFather/Haiku page is  there

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Dividius: The Forgotten Philosopher

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What is not subject to gravity

is subject to anti-gravity.

If nothing goes up,

nothing will come down.

It is either night or day.

If it is not one,

it is the other.

Either you are with me

or you are against me.

I am me and you are not.

Listen to people as much as possible,

then forget an equal amount.

Dividius of Samos

1569-1666  

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Footnote
Unfortunately, Dividius escaped noticed by all indices
of philosophical history exclusive of
the Institute of Inane Research.

Dividius of Samos was a personal tutor
of Pythagoras, his young neighbor.

Unfortunately, the link to the island
of Dividius' birthplace contains
not a singular reference to the tutor of
The Father of Mathematics.

Thus, Dividius of Samos
is the copyrighted property
of  LCSoL.

The best living example of the quote
Listen to people as much as possible
then forget an equal amount
is President Donald Trump. 

The next GoFather/Trump page
—in which he is referred to
as THE BIG ENCHILADA—
is  here.
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Sockology (Comic Relief #1720)

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Roz Chast

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The 78th Bullet: To Know The Difference

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We have the inalienable right
to mistake a firefly for a fire
but we also have the obligation
to know the difference.

However, there are also those
who claim to be under no obligation
whatsoever to that thing
called Humanity.

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 Footnotes

THE 78th BULLET  is the copyrighted property of  LCSoL.

This bullet, in reduced form,
was originally written in 1998.

Only the first 45 Bullets are linked together
because we do not want to make life easy
for our favorite thieves.
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CarPeo Set Piece ... [#64] ... They Called Me Buddy

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© Mrs. CarPeo

When I was

Your age
...

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Footnote
The next CarPeo Set Piece is  here.
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Photoverio © (#243): Walking Between The Rocks

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© Oliverio

Along the shore,
past the bicyclist 

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Oh How Happy

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The Birthday Girl
was glowing
on Catalina.

The photographer
is reflected
in her glasses
and the title song
is  here.

Moments before

this picture was taken,

an oceanfront photograph

with a tricky finger

   got posted  there.    

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Five Quotes From Leonard Cohen

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It's hard to hold the hand of anyone

who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
*

How can I begin anything new

with all of yesterday in me?
*

The last refuge of the insomniac

is a sense of superiority 

to the sleeping world.
*

Reality is one of the possibilities

I cannot afford to ignore.
*

All of us are footnotes

to the words of Chuck Berry.

Leonard Cohen

born: September 21, 1934

died: November 9, 2016

Say Hello to the first

Leonard Cohen song

I ever heard:

So Long, Marianne 

(1967)

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Equally True For A Successful Woman

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David Brinkley

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If JEOPARDY ... Believed In Pure PUNishment ... And Red Text

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Answer:

Question:

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Footnotes
The bottom image was photographed
by Mrs. CarPeo.

Her lesser half assumes responsibility
for all else, including an apology to
Alex Trebek.

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