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The Numbers

The night sky is full of numbers that cannot be counted. The stars numb then inspire, then numb. The word ‘infinite’ becomes a conjectural sum to be defined by pundits in bow ties and star-crazed, white coated messiahs. Tilt your head back on a cloudless night feel the burn, the cold mathematical anesthesia of being infinitesimal, not even a reckoning in an unsolvable puzzle, a nonplus that breeds only more numbers until like a train, your brain runs out of rails to travel upon. Perhaps an intuitive awareness will save us - a new kind of starry abacus arise pre-set to calculate only incomprehension, then we may move beyond the tyranny of such number games, counting only ourselves in.

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Date: 7/26/2020 6:24:00 PM
...nice write....the lovely thing about 'numbers' (logic symbols) is the many ways in which they may be conceived of.......stan sand
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Eric Ashford
Date: 7/26/2020 7:01:00 PM
Hi Stan, Yes that's true, and the same could be said of words, but of course they are just the symbols of symbols, and you need to pull then apart, not figure them out. Great feedback. Thanks! e
Date: 7/26/2020 4:14:00 PM
Hello Eric Asford, a deep beautiful created poem Eric, Enjoy your evening my friend.
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Date: 7/26/2020 4:32:00 PM
Hi Darlene, good to see you on-line again. Thanks for the comment. Have a good evening also. e
Date: 7/26/2020 11:59:00 AM
Caren expressed it so well. My brain has run out of rail. Yours is about the only poetry getting in. xomo
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Date: 7/26/2020 12:04:00 PM
Cheers PT Numbers (math) have always been a mystery to me. It's a language I can comprehend well as a theoretical concept, but being a high functioning dyslexic the infinite as an expression of any kind of number I find mind boggling. Glad you liked it and thanks. e
Date: 7/26/2020 8:51:00 AM
A profound, deeply delightful poem Eric.
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Date: 7/26/2020 10:27:00 AM
So good that you liked this one Cheers Caren. e

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