It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Monday, May 14, 2018

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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Sunday, May 13, 2018

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

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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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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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Saturday, May 12, 2018

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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Friday, May 11, 2018

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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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

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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Monday, May 7, 2018

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.

A Nasty Incident

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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