The Day That Paradise Split The Deck (Comic Relief #2275)

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John Sloan
(1914)

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W.C. Fields' Father + Shrunken Statesman (Comic Relief #2274)

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E.W. Kemble
 (1899)

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........ ?*#$%!(¿) ........ This Is Not Fake News ........ ?*#$%!(¿) ........

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Goodbye

Skull and Bones

Goodbye

Skullduggery

Hello 

Skype and Huggery

To Hell with

Study Hall

I would provide a hyperlink
if and only if 
the owner of this media source
were listed on
The Ten Most INsignificant People
In The World  

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Mother's Day Monolog With Defiance And Deference

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Today is Mother's Day

A plenitude of pastors

will proclaim

Thank God for your Mother

This morning,

A sometimes solitary me 

will exclaim
(with my inner voice)

Let God thank me

(The beauty of that inner voice)
(is that I am the only one)
(who can hear it)

My Mother was with me

for barely twenty years

My Mother has been with God

for nearly fifty years

But I forgive God

for taking the Grace

out of my life

Grace Oliverio

(1921-1971)

There is no length long enough
to measure my love for you 

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Poem For A Young Artist

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behind her years

beyond her ears

WHERE  

laughter and tears

shouts and cheers

locks and gears

the domain

of loss and gain

TILTS

toweringly toward

the latter
    

but how are you graded?
    

and if you traded    

ten selfies for one true friend

you would get a better blend

of art and reality

of ha ha ha

and HAstility
 

behind and beyond

the eyes

lurks the big prize

but the true artist

can vary its size
    

and when walking

on the flying trapeze

know when 

NOT to sneeze
    

but ALWAYS

when to copyright
     

good night

sweet K

I've nothing

more to say

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

POEM FOR A YOUNG ARTIST

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

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CarPeo Set Piece #79 ... Lady With The Lime And Her Leftovers

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© Mrs. CarPeo
Another Way Of Saying Grace 

The next
CarPeo Set Piece is
here

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Photoverio #304: Harlem Through The Rain

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© Oliverio
A View from the Hudson Line
(2015)

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The Do's And Don'ts Of Libby ... Up From The Archives

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Libby do

Libby don't

Libby will

Libby won't

Libby's a lot of you

Libby's a lot of me

Libby is all about

dichotomy

Libby's got a voice

Libby's got a choice

And this poem has

an end

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

THE DO's AND DON'Ts OF LIBBY

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

Originally written in 1998,

Libby Do / Libby Don't

appeared in prose form

and was copyrighted

as a feature of

The Neither/Nor Journal

For your potential reading pleasure,
a story was written about
The Neither/Nor Journal  

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Rorschach Page #22 ... Holy Detritus! This Is One Hull Of A Boat

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© Oliverio
But what is the significance
of that letter  A
???


The next GoFather/Rorschach
page is
here

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Message To K ... It Is Easier To Post Than To Be ...

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© Oliverio
Photoverio #303.5
  

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Footnote
The hyperlink is the copyrighted property
of the creator of the most famous frog
in the universe 

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The Truckdriver's Son Dreams In Reverse Gear

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Travis Tatum was named after Travis Tatum.

Like father, like son

But the elder was a Texas truckdriver

for more than twenty years

and the younger was a Texas teacher

for exactly two years.

Then Travis Tatum Jr.  

left Texas for the first time

to find a teaching job in California.

He drove on the interstate

with one hundred and one

tractor-trailers dwarfing

his mother's eight-year-old Hyundai.

She had just been given 

a 2018 Honda Civic

as a birthday gift

from Travis Sr.
 

On Junior's first night 

sleeping outside of Texas,

he had a dream

on a vintage Motel Six mattress.

Immediately upon awakening,

he telephoned his parents:
 

"Mom, Dad, I just dreamt

I was born again

and, of course, I was named

after my father

"But, in the dream,

he was a teacher

and I became a truck driver:

"Finally, I had a respectable income

and a secure job."  

     

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Footnote
THE TRUCKDRIVER'S SON
DREAMS IN REVERSE GEAR
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

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Introducing Lexico C.V. Spacer, The Word Doctor

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Petty

is a very petty word

A word who felt

sad and small

He went to see

Dr. Spacer

The good doctor

immediately

placed a space

the first two letters

of the word:

P etty

The good doctor said

to the small word

This calls for a consonant

And then it was

Pretty

😀😀😀 

  

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Footnotes
INTRODUCING LEXICO C.V. SPACER,
THE WORD DOCTOR
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

This page is dedicated to
Joan Ganz and
The Electric Company

Lexico C.V. Spacer
is an associate of
Dr. Syllablender 

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Semi- Quantum Leap From Dostoevsky To Cat Stevens

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a/k/a
YUSUF STEVENS

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Feeding The Brain With A Taste Of Dostoevsky

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Whole trains of thought

sometimes pass instantly

through our heads

...

without translation

into human language.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

A Nasty Incident

(1862)

The Godfather of Kafka

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Footnote
Another quote from the same  Dostoevsky anthology:
"It's impossible to live on earth and not lie."
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Effort Enables The Former To Be Greater Than 12 [HKu #57]

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Success is not
a 24/7 concept.

Neither is failure.

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Footnotes

EFFORT ENABLES THE FORMER
TO BE GREATER THAN 12
 is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

The next GoFather Haiku page is
here

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