The 4 Gone Conclusions

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The 4 gone conclusions

went north, west,

south then east

They carried arms
for Venus

into the belly

of the beast

Where fact and fiction

were the main event

Billed as:

Be flexible

or get bent

Fact hit north

fiction hit south

fact took it in the gut

fiction bled in his mouth

The 4 gone conclusions

sat in the east

They cheered for the angel

and cheered for the beast

The four horsemen divided unevenly

Three rode in daylight

one rode his night mare

They quivered

with quips on their lips

and gave us

the apocalypse 

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

THE 4 GONE CONCLUSIONS

is the copyrighted property of

LCSoL

This page is dedicated to

Jorge Luis Borges,
to whom I have returned
nervously

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The 112th Bullet: In Deference To The Late Marcel DuTramp

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Like all good dairy products,
the milk of human kindness, 
has an expiration date.

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 Footnotes

THE 112th BULLET 
is the copyrighted property of  LCSoL.
 
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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I Am Willing To Go Dutch With This Idea

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A sixty-nine year-old Dutch man,

noting that advanced thinkers

think gender fluidity is real,

wondered why not age, too,

and demanded that all records

of his birthdate

be revised to say he is 49

because that is how he "feels."

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GEORGE WILL 

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Four Images That May Or May Not Disappear From This Page

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The Highlighted And Historical Origin Of Sweet Little Sixteen

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Francois de Chateaubriand
The Phantom of Love
(1833) 

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Another DJ-Verio Playlist ... #857142 ... Ginger And Fred

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Nothing's impossible

I have found

when my chin

is on the ground

I pick myself up

dust myself off

and start all over again

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JEROME KERN

Pick Yourself Up

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To Get To That Special Place

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Bravado and Humility

had a race

The finish line

was a special place

No one thought Humilty

had a chance

until Bravado

did a dance

In sight

of the finish line

he grabbed

a bottle of wine

Bravado danced the Ego Boogie

At the "loser"

he threw an egg

but in the process

Bravado broke a leg

!!!

One hour later someone greater

—Humility—

passed him by

while the crowd

let out a wild cry

Humility crossed

the finish line

and what's more

he drank the victory wine

through a straw 

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

TO GET TO THAT SPECIAL PLACE

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

A variation of this poem

was written approximately

twenty-five years ago

This poem was written approximately

twenty-five minutes ago

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Half-Wit And The Hole Numbers

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some mornings

i count up to ten

before inventing

a reason

to get out of bed

but all the fractions

between

one and two

defy invention

they could fill a hole

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

(2005)

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Footnote

HALF-WIT AND THE HOLE NUMBERS

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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Photoverio #350: The Colorado Lagoon

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© Oliverio
Bleached and Fenced

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Psssst...Anybody Out There Want A Piano?

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We call it

PIANO CAMAFLAGIO

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Here is a side view
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Here is a naked view
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Direct all inquiries
to this website

Flora and tarp
not included

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Q And A ... With Mr. CarPeo

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Mr. Cyberspace:
Are you jealous
of these statistics
from Mrs. CarPeo's
website?

Mr. CarPeo:
No, Sir.
I am very proud
of her stats.

Mr. Cyberspace:
How proud are you?

Mr. CarPeo:
On a scale of
one to a thousand:
just multiply all
the numbers listed
on Mrs. CarPeo's
stat sheet and then
subtract seven.

Mr. Cyberspace:
Why did you post 
her  stats today?

Mr. CarPeo:
Because today is our Sixth Anniversary.

Mr. Cyberspace:
Do you have anything more
to say?

Mr. CarPeo:
Yes.
I hope our relationship lasts
long enough to share at least
five thousand compliments.  
 
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Footnote
This page is dedicated to John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Photoverio #349: Outside My Door (2005)

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© Oliverio
Hazeburg Power Lines
 

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Footnotes
Eight photographs from The Hazeburg Sequence
can be found in the  2-DIE-4 Photo Gallery
a/k/a
the bottom half of The GoodFather of Math
website

The image above may have appeared in
the bottom (or top) half of
The GodFather of Math
website  
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There Is More To The Name Than Meets The Dish

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My doctor
played the game of
"Word Association"
with me and said
CHATEAUBRIAND

My response was

Upscale Steak Dish

Then he showed me
this image:

I said
It looks more funeral
than edible

My doctor said
You need some brain food

He immediately prescribed
a different kind of
Chateaubriand

It was a book:

Despite the title
and the excessively
dark image,
there is nothing
in this book
to remind me of
Dracula
but there is enough
in the first seventy pages
to remind me
of virtually every
quality author born after
the eighteenth century

Below is a sample quote from
Francois Rene de Chateaubriand


 

A sweet and succinct
Love Story
from Chateaubriand
is
here 
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PhotoVerio #348: Counterpoint Images ... Before + After Steroids

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Before taking steroids


After taking steroids
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 © Oliverio (2x)


The Before image,
originally posted
as Photoverio #74,
was titled SAIL AWAY
because it is
an oil slick
from a sailboat

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From A George Carlin Riff To A Pair Of George Carlin Quotes

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A treasure trove 
of Carlin quotes
are
here 

The next
GoFather/Carlin
page is
there 

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