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The Glitch in the Grid

...The telescreens hummed their endless drone, 
A symphony of truth alone, 
Dictated, printed, beamed so wide, 
Where independent thought had died. 
Newspeak choked the rebel tongue, 
And every sun...

Categories: statisticians, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Sunny Side Up

...So what if the markets all opened down
   The sun’s up and shining all over town

And as for the latest round of hot weather
   Folks survived ‘dust bowls’ by sticking together

Then there’s th...

Categories: statisticians, future, perspective, sunshine,
Form: Couplet

Nothing To See Here

...significant and alarming rises in deaths
shootings
murders

mow the lawn
go shopping
watch football
crack open cold ones
make babies
jiggle babies on laps

significant hurricanes and torna...

Categories: statisticians, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Lucky Numbers Blues

...There are many gambler's fallacies
the statisticians say 
each roll of the roulette table
is an independent event

Yet the gamblers believe
that if for example

there were ten red numbers
in...

Categories: statisticians, addiction, games, lost,
Form: Quatrain

Trump Giving Us the Shaft and More

...Trump Giving Us the Shaft

Knock, knock, knock and guess who's here;
It must be foolish Trump with all of his fear;
Executive order;
Go to border;
Who had given us the shaft  with his spear.

...

Categories: statisticians, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

350,000 Reasons

...Each day around the world over 350,000 babies are born 
or so the statisticians say
350,000 babies…welcomed into our world each day.

350,000 first time parents..who are excited (but don’t have c...

Categories: statisticians, baby,
Form: Verse

Professor Glory's Active Hope

...The title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating 
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.

Would you imagine
a minority...

Categories: statisticians, creation, culture, deep, environment,
Form: Political Verse

Twin Air Disasters To Survive In 2014

...2014 What a year, talk about going thro one lousy year...
Malaysia as a fledgling nation suffered badly thro the year...
Statisticians are stunned into silence for within a single calender year, 
...

Categories: statisticians, angst, anniversary, community, life,
Form: Free verse

A Whole New Universe

...Science classes in the sixties were different than they are now. While hippies
protested, science kept its calm. Matter was arranged in tidy molecules of
atoms with tiny electrons spinning around. ...

Categories: statisticians, funnygod, god, may, space,
Form: Free verse

Statistics

...Never Trust Statisticians... 
They say that lightning never hits the same spot twice
Ha! I’d laugh at that if I could.
I lived my life, an exception to the rule
Never falling into stereotypes.
Y...

Categories: statisticians, death, funny, nature, parody,
Form: Epitaph