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Viola Warbeck ([personal profile] tristfully) wrote in [community profile] peckenpaugh2020-02-12 04:40 pm
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'Numbers'

I like the generosity of numbers.
The way, for example,
they are willing to count
anything or anyone:
two pickles, one door to the room,
eight dancers dressed as swans.

I like the domesticity of addition—
add two cups of milk and stir—
the sense of plenty: six plums
on the ground, three more
falling from the tree.

And multiplication’s school
of fish times fish,
whose silver bodies breed
beneath the shadow
of a boat.

Even subtraction is never loss,
just addition somewhere else:
five sparrows take away two,
the two in someone else’s
garden now.

There’s an amplitude to long division,
as it opens Chinese take-out
box by paper box,
inside every folded cookie
a new fortune.

And I never fail to be surprised
by the gift of an odd remainder,
footloose at the end:
forty-seven divided by eleven equals four,
with three remaining.

Three boys beyond their mother’s call,
two Italians off to the sea,
one sock that isn't anywhere you look.


Mary Cornish



What I like about numbers is that they remind me I'm an absolute moron and I think that's good for a person (from time to time).

[Wyatt]

How do you feel about numerology?
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[personal profile] pageantree 2020-02-13 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
So you like poetry?
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[personal profile] pageantree 2020-02-13 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have a favorite poem?

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Aw, well, I'm sorry to hear that. Don't think you're a moron.

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[personal profile] infamously 2020-02-13 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
According to the math, you and I are meant to be. Although, I'm not sure whose math, as I definitely did not fill out an entry for myself.
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[personal profile] infamously 2020-02-13 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't trust their judgment. I received two cards, with no overlap between them, which makes me think that "idealized version" is about as credible as Gildersleeves' methodology.

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like in what way

it can be super useful but I'm crap at it makes my eyes all crossy
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oh wait are you asking me to the dance?

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[personal profile] princeofcat 2020-02-13 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Eh. Numbers can be pretty stupid, themselves.

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nothing wrong with a little humbling every so often.

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HEY VIOLA WILL YOU GO TO THE DANCE WITH ME?
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Edited (so romantique!!!) 2020-02-13 04:24 (UTC)

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[...] Congrats. [...] I miss something ?

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Thanks for the poem.

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[personal profile] controltheory 2020-02-13 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
I've never liked a poem before.