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Numb From Numbers

Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers...
   Are you numb from all your numbers?
Social security, drivers license, identity card numbers
   Numbers, numbers -- numb from numbers

Library card, insurance card, employee numbers
   Credit card, debit card, loyalty club card numbers
Numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers...
   Are you numb from all your numbers?

Telephone numbers: Landlines, smartphones, cellphones
   Computer passwords: At home, at work, on laptops
Desktops, countertops, tabletops, rooftops, mountaintops too
   Remember when "I'm not a name but a number" was not really true?

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David Mchattie Date: 4/29/2019 8:00:00 PM Things will get easier after the Robots rise to power. Have a great day my friend. Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 4/29/2019 8:55:00 PM So true. By then we'll be completely numb anyway. :) gw

M. L. Kiser Date: 4/29/2019 3:13:00 PM I do remember when! Acronyms are the same; will the human being ever speak a full language again? Write it? Learn it? Acronyms and numbers is what our world has been reduced to...nausea has set in...well penned. Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 4/29/2019 4:11:00 PM Well, I guess I remember when also...although I was still a teen-ager when the 'you're a number, not a name' became a motif in folk/pop 'save-the-world' songs...Now, however: You've really summed things up well! Nausea, the word of the day. Thanks for your insight and your support. ~ Gershon

Panagiota Romios Date: 4/29/2019 11:51:00 AM Well done, GW! I never thought about this. Panagiota Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 4/29/2019 2:30:00 PM I guess numbers are on my mind lately, as I am constantly having to change passwords and such. Thanks for the feedback! ~ Gershon

Kurt Ravidas Date: 4/29/2019 11:37:00 AM "Poetry is a form of literature, in which numbers dictate structure to give more beauty to it") I don't remember who said this. Nicely done, Wolf. Especially about tops) Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 4/29/2019 2:29:00 PM That's an awesome quote. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I think that I'll just attribute it to you! Thank you for your support and encouragement. ~ Gershon