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Let's Talk Numbers

Let’s talk numbers I talk one language, need no more. This world Needs but one thing. A number line Digressing time, And all the things within. Poetic sigh as freedom cries. Creative arts are dead. Financially, ecstatically You celebrate this win. Stats, figures, percentages loom around This anxious corner, people yearning for rises. Forgetting economic crisis. An international gesture, favours well. A frown turned upside down, by one small alteration To the standard wage…..pathetic nation. Religiously this all bodes well. No fiddly Bits, no hidden-meaning. One simple scaffold, tells it well. What you’ve done, and where you’ve been All deciphered by one thing, The coefficient of your sin. A tiresome idol now replaced. A Greek man, Pythag Takes it’s space. Life experience, calculated By the gradient of your absolution, Utter focus on the prize, Which lies....ahead of children. Past the love. Beyond the gates And all above. Further then until you find, A formulae for all things prime, Careful you don’t lose your mind. A frequent occurrence To all man-kind. So lets be hasty to our graves. Cut Out the tongues which set the bar, The right of speech, and who we are. I insist. Take out these complicated brackets, Multiply them by our crimes, and then divide By nurtured time. Calculate the lengthy angle, Simplify that and untangle, All the extra nonsense. Let’s talk numbers.

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Date: 1/31/2016 7:56:00 PM
george, A great pleasure to find and read your poem today. Love -- SKAT --
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Date: 8/27/2011 11:36:00 AM
I like this poem because I can interpret it in two ways. for the depressing business-like greed and for forgetting the things that matter. What a great topic and you didn't limit yourself by rhyming. You are clever.
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