Teamwork

God was the first man to learn of the Superior Force.
Consider the rose: His most aesthetic creation. More delicate then the
sweetest dream and redder than rubies. Softer than an April rain, it
sends the olfactory sense into celestial orbit. Poets pound their brain
just to describe the rose.
God invents it, He is excited. He runs home to Godette. He is so proud,
finally convinced that this creation business is a worthwhile occupation.
"It needs thorns," She declares.
"But Godette, thorns are dangerous and the rose is so beautiful," He
protests.
"Yes, my dear God, and anything that beautiful needs its own protection!"

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Biography

Paul Oliverio lives in Burbank, California and teaches Math at Jefferson High School in South-Central Los Angeles. He has dovetailed a passion for poetry and Math by putting a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem to rap music. He has published in the Fibonacci Quarterly.