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A Man Treated As a Number

He was a man of no name or personality
but a dot within dots on a graph  
yet, the point of a plane surface he occupied 
was the very edge of -3 sigma on a normal curve

or coordinate Y<0.1 : X<0.1 position on the wide plane, 
so insignificant that hardly he was noticed in anyone’s eyes. 

His assigned number for a statistical purpose was 2,
nevertheless, there was no hidden or specific meaning to it,
merely an administrative purpose; it was just like a number 
assigned to an inmate whose individuality or characteristics 
were totally deprived.

Number 2, when multiplied with infinity indefinitely

grew a pair of wings on his back, 
the 2 flew away somewhere no one knows 
where it may be, flapping his huge wings.

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