Long Calculator Poems

NAME: Phil Latio.

QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet    
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“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. 
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable 
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment 
to acknowledge...

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It’s Monday afternoon, the first day after Fall Break. Several of my suitemates are here, relaxing a bit before we hit the dining hall and then scatter, like debris from a bomb. There are a...

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Global warming is on the rise;
hear the hateful voices,
see the angry eyes
Earth temperature is flaring to the moon,
	nuclear hate
gon bring an apocalyptic kaboom
Hostile tweet emotions
		press send to our doom
Then sorrowful hearts
	will be melting soon
Unless we...

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Life is a beauty
From the day a baby starts
Everyone who knows about them 
Keeps them in their hearts
And when a baby’s born
There are tears of joy,
From the mother and the father,
And their little girls and...

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Troublesome me 
   In my life the X would equal crazy
            You'd need more than a calculator
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You pulled me in close and said youve never met someone like me 
You asked me what I wanted out of this and I said you 
You pulled me in tighter 
You smiled wider 
And...

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When I were a child,
I never imagined who pays for my feed.
My fellows sometimes whispered,
God feeds to everyone.
But always,
When my dad comes late night home,
He feels tiredness,
Mum boils water for him,
He takes bath,
And changes his...

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“For I have seen you from far places
Shinning in bold light because you are made
Of Copper and tellurium; CuTe,

You are like the transition metals
You display love of many colours,
You are the sunshine that speeds up...

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The  Mystery Code.

She is tapping on the glass with her finger nails. The sound is like pins dropping on a tiled floor. Their eyes meet through the hazy glass door, as she enters the...

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Thinking of the bay that daily gush 
From our ray on this lengthy voyage.
This at first wasn't envisage to be created,
For our calculator has failed us in haste.

Yes in haste it has failed us.
Despite the...

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As a child, he outlasted the nine-month process and lasted ten months within his mother's womb. Ten months inside made him different than us. 
A child who was classified with brilliant mathematical skills. 
Skills which...

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Ride over 4000000000 mountains on a baked tray

Times a tide,
Divide a ride,
Equal to no one is the writhe of a sprite,
In a whirl of a rotating rhombus,
Is the real

The reality of an equilateral is the...

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A strange fire is burning in my soul
you have to do something about it
before it consumes the world
It is melting the ice and it is
moving towards paradise

Please do not take my savings 
and pension away...

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Which is the greatest conduct of them all,
which one denies terpitude & futility most strenuously,
which exhalts productivity & nobility most vigorously,
is there a single method of action, behavior of best results
that is preeminent & priority...

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The doghouse needs a paint job now our dog and I have swapped
our sleeping quarters after making sure, that the penny dropped.
You see I shut up the missus which was a blessing at the time,
but...

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Written: July 09, 2023
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In this digital age, where love can be found,
I dream of a world where Backspace is profound.
If I could turn back time, oh, the things I would do,
To undo the mistakes and...

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what colour do we wanna look at?
red, of course, like the doorway i knew in childhood
like the blood whispering through the pipes of an egret
it doesn’t matter
yawning voice draining unconscious energy from dying room
the boy...

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When I was born
Somebody might have thought, ‘he is going to bring wealth’,
It was hard to look outside
Though some might have thought, ‘he is going to be a visionary’,
I cried, I was innocent and I...

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I glanced out my window watchin' kids plod along to school today.
I recalled my school days and how things have changed along the way
I watched the little fellers hunched over with their over-loaded packs.
'Tis a...

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Here’s a little bit of news that might not be of interest to you but I’ll tell you anyway…
Bryan, our eldest son, turns 45 today.

Here’s another little bit of news to share as we travel...

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I am sitting at my desk attempting at some prose
But nothing seems to come to me nothing to compose
My minds a canvas blank not two words can I rhyme
So I try counting backwards just to...

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I sit, chewing on my pen tip,
Trying to look as if I am deep in serious thoughts, 
Tapping my foot with an air of restless efficiency,
Fussing over my spellings and ink blots.

I glance at the...

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“Teenager, 
The growing youth, 
The future leader, 
The light of the nation, 

Listen to the words, 
All mathematically, 	
Like the equation y = mx + c, 
The y-intersect you can meet at
As a young girl...

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I look back on my life, what do I see,
a life time wasted playing video games.

What I didn't know then, I can understand now,
living  a false sense of fulfillment because I lacked satisfaction in...

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