The GoFather Of Math

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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Sunday, March 15, 2020

The Twenti-Third Page In This Series

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We can't go on
meeting like this

The next page
in this series
is here

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Fourteen

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To make a quatrain
about NOT making a wish

Never try to sell
fire insurance to a fish

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

TO MAKE A QUATRAIN

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal

The next page in this series
is here

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It's The Real Thing

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Things go Better

with Coke

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Photoverio #426: Self-Portrait ... And Then Some

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Three Of A Kind ... Stations Of The Shell Game

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Photoverio #425: Sunset With Fence Strip

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Moral-iverio #1: Warning For Litter Bugs

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If a garbage truck

says DON'T LITTER

and you disobey,

Then everwhere

you look,
you will see

three menacing

garbage trucks

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Footnotes

The photographs were taken

at a NYC Sanitation yard

adjacent to JFK Airport

in 2012

The sanitation trucks are parked
in a yard next to the school bus yard

The next page in this series
is here

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Friday, March 13, 2020

Poem For Meret Oppenheim And Man Ray

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I want to sip from your cup

I want to laugh it up

with fur-lined lips

and words doing back-flips

debate Dufy

till they close the cafe

at the dawn of day,

we'll visit Man Ray

MERET OPPENHEIM
Object
(1936)

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Footnote
POEM FOR MERET OPPENHEIM
AND MAN RAY
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

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Photoverio #424: Jetty Samantics ... Sic

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© Oliverio *Named for Dada* some images ought be put on the shelf But I can't cease to amuse myself

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The Re-Formatted Cracked Plate With One Word Changed

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The cracked plate has to be

retained in the pantry,

has to be kept in service

as a household necessity.

It can never be

warmed on the stove

nor shuffled with

the other plates in the dishpan.

It will not be brought out

for company

but it will do to hold crackers

late at night or to go into

the refrigerator

with the left overs.

***

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

The next
GoFather/Fitzgerald
page is here

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Six Of A Kind ... Kissing At The Shoreline, Reflectively

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© Oliverio (6x)
Peninsula Beach Romance

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LCSoL Will Publish Woody Allen's Autobiography

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BUT
Woody
you are welcome
to publish
your autobiography
here
at the
GoFather of Math

WE
will give you
as many pages
as you need
and

WE WILL PAY YOU
every penny,
nickel, dime and dollar
that is generated
by anyone
who reads it

The world

is upside-down

when men of

extraordinary talent

are the most endangered

species in America

and the life story

of Woody Allen

won't be published

because of a pink storm

and a publisher*

with no cojones
decided to
abandon you

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Footnotes
The photographer is JIM MARSHALL

* Hachette declared they would publish
Woody Allen's Autobiography but
some of its employees complained
and Hachette reversed its decision

Hachette is named for a French Hatchet
whose blade is made from chicken feathers

If the blade doesn't tickle you to death,
it will make you reach for another toke
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

The Original Corona Virus ... Jackson Heights, NY, June 29, 1958

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At O'Grady's Erie Bar

in Jackson Heights

Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary

were known as

The Inebriatos

The bar was

under an elevated subway

and the neighborhood
was partly under
the poverty level

Pops O'Grady

set aside a corner table

for the Inebriatos

Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary

had the blues

and their table

was painted blue

Their table also contained

forty empty bottles

of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

After deciding not to smash

the juke box because someone

had just played

The Great Mandala

twelve times in a row,

the Inebriatos

started talking about
HER

😢 😢😢😢
Barry, Harry, Larry and Gary

all loved the same girl

The girl

lived in a castle

and regarded the four
nineteen-year-old boys

as lower than the dust

beneath her chariot wheels

The castle was in a neighboring town

and the girl's name was

IRIS

The neighboring town was

CORONA

Naturally,

rhyming came easy for

Barry, Harry, Larry, and Gary

and so they sang:

Her parent were doctors

from Arizona

who bought a castle

in Corona

The castle would never be

visited by us

but in it lived a girl

named Iris

Just her name:

it gives us shivers

just to touch her,

we'd donate our livers

Our hearts are broken,

our mouths always cussing

despite always having

Flora from Flushing

What will become

of us

stricken by

the Corona Iris

She don't know
how it feels
to be crushed by
her chariot wheels

What will become
of us
stricken by
the Corona Virus

...

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Footnotes

THE ORIGINAL CORONA VIRUS

JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY, 1958

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Especially the lyrics

to the song

I apologize to anyone

offended by geographical liberties

regarding the Borough of Queens

The Institute of Inane Research

has determined that the castle owned

by the family of Iris Wantagh

morphed into a parking lot

for Shea Stadium

They also determined
Flora from Flushing
became a distinguished
high school principal
in Los Angeles

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About Today's AND The February 15 Birthday Celebrants

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I am honored to NOT attend
your birthday parties
because
my feet are still
on terra firma

But Kobe Bryant
will be there
and his daughter,
Gianna,
will not be offended
if you call her
Giovanna
because
that is the name
of your great-grand-daughter

After my smarter half
goes to a Jane Austen movie,
I will celebrate
Daddy's 104th birthday
by eating the same meatballs
my Grandmothers
will be serving YOU

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