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The Slide Ruler

The Slide Ruler

As regulations rule this world from outside in and my time slowly
                 seeps away on this planet’s realm I gaze in awe at that once modern
instrument of calculation that dangles from the ceiling lamp in my

~ Study ~ 

In forward looking nostalgia my memories ambivalent a reminder of 
                words scripted on paper in fountain pen and blotting paper absorbing
the logic never understood derived from square rooted calculus’s incisive

~ Precision ~

I failed the examination maybe my hands were too clumsy or my mind
                       too entangled in quests of a different kind of looming poet trees
in onward advances flooding naive crafting knitting dreams and emotional

~ Liberation ~

I tried to run away and on track right by the start of a marathon
             real and timed in a fast moving obsession I discovered my ruler sliding
into my fingers for a Euro in red plastic casing with figures organizing

~ Incomprehension ~

Metaphorical and analogue to a desire to escape from the dogma of science 
          eschewing the unquestioned paradigm of only one truth and one answer
only as well as the modern compulsion with bits and apps it reminds me of

~ Signposts ~

Trivial directives which lead me away and beyond of what can be counted
                   calculated in the hamster wheeling rat race of pretending to know
exactly what is an illusion in any case plastic or iron cased in

~ Rationalization ~

Nevertheless and because of what I could not understand with a
                slide ruler and the pretence of computer colonized minds around me
I cherish not simply for all time’s sake that comprehension results from

~ Fragmentation ~

And thus found the whole kit and caboodle the complementation of
           polarity synthesized opposites complemented diversity celebrated in the 
 festival of life and the living with brick a brack completing the meaning of

~ Life ~


24th October 2016

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