Death Math Poems

The headlines blared “COVID-19 vaccines kill people!”
“More vaccinated people die of COVID than non-vaccinated!”
“COVID vaccines are a government conspiracy!”

Wait a minute, though.
Let’s think about this...

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Everyday Math 

Milk, bread, eggs... 
the necessities we need, 
to feed those we love 
every day. 

They are getting harder to buy, 
and they are...

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There remains,
among cherished riff-raff,
old trope
tropical wet and warm
reproducing images,

Sadly resilient
and madly resonant,

About organic holes
and tumescent poles,
full-flowering 
young
green feminists
of feckless zero-empty wombs,
glacier valley lows
merely reflecting
volcanic mountain...

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Lost
truth
That life
is naught but
a sequenced pattern
that finishes where it began 

~FJ Thomas...

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Cassandra
My sister in suffering
our stories align
Betrayed by him
you had devoted
your being to serve
Never adored
Mocked and ignored
Driven mad by derision
for no one would listen
Viciously violated
seeking sanctuary
Your...

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I suspect Albert Einstein's mathematician wife
taught spatial Left
and temporal bicameral Right Al
to feel the passing
and surging
spatial ebbing and temporal flowing,

Circling
and spiraling evolutions
and oceanic NonZero Sum...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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May I show you numbers

Math numbers to add now

Many to subtract from

My coins make me dollars

Mom help me with homework

Minds great and small count twice

Monday...

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Mathematics Pleiades

mounting death toll shows mad
math of politics, when
masks worn the numbers hold--
mask-less, the numbers rise
many just won't comply
mortality madness
maybe we'll save ourselves




  ...

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Bertrand Russell
was intrigued by systems theory,
appalled by systemic racism
within himself and others,
corporations and churches
not recognizing each other's wisdom
also found in temples and synagogues
and community investment...

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It's remarkable how strong denial can be,
it appears that the wise have it right.
Most who vote, in their nibs, trust a flatterer’s fibs,
(hide their heads...

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Off to school we must go,                   ...

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Normally a wake up call will do
Chance favors the mind prepared
A math quiz waits for an idiot in class
The university is an hour away by...

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I wonder why
this perennial topic of death
does not interest me

Even my own
evokes cold detachment
rather than invoking warm 
heated attachment to denial
anger
disappointment
body betrayal.

Death cast in dull...

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Whisper
 
A subtle current,
a fierce expression,
of a gentle feeling, 
wild,
powerful, 
no longer held contained 
by any restraint. 
 
Not weak, as may be expected, 
but...

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