Dont be fooled by numbers
as I was
Dont look for recurrent patterns
as I did
Or numerology
despite it making sense to me
Dont look to numbers for status
rank debasement
numbers are exactly as they are
advertised numb – ers
doughdedoughdedoughde
do re mi fa so la ti dode doggonit
I
lost count
ran out of fingers and toes and friends I counted on to help me
whittled a tree to matchsticks trying to keep count keep up
ran out of fingers and toes and friends I counted on to help me
whittled a tree to matchsticks trying to keep count keep up
with what
I
dont recall
Tallying ho
numbers paramount
numbers paramount
numbingly
paramount
lemmesee if I can remember(or if I wont make something up to escape scrutiny) -- scrutiny is uncomfortable -- will I add up -- what will I do if I dont -- what can I do to make up the difference to add up -- what slick machinations
-- and quietly crushed beneath the heaping equations the first consideration -- which perhaps should have been uttered out loud and vibrant -- Add up? to whose standard? what do I care if I add up to it or not -- I play nice --
I dont go out of my way to badger or hurt anyone anything -- I dont have to look over my shoulder -- Im brusque
but I dont lie -- I have no tracks to cover
-- Im
up front)
I cant remember
It must have been important then
to begin
but I lost sight of It(behind the heaps and mounds of discarded numbers to get to the very next -- the whittled slivers)
No I cant remember what I was counting on
he got lost in the purpose the routine
in the monotone
it misplaced his reason
The Reason
(how many words are there in the dictionary that precede Reason -- could they be excised erased)
0027, Sunday,
7 6. 15
1417, Sunday, 7 6. 15
1417, Sunday, 7 6. 15
