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I have a number, you have a number

Dreamsprite's picture
Submitted by Dreamsprite on March 10, 2008 - 20:40.

Numbers here, numbers there.
1
24
6,489
3
But what comes after them?
1 of me
24 cents that the gas prices have risen since last year
6,489 dead people and more in Iraq this year...
3 days until another club meeting.
What happened?
On that blinking screen I can hear
"At least five U.S. soldiers on foot patrol were killed and three others wounded in a suicide bombing Monday in Baghdad, U.S. military officials in Iraq said..."
Two and five.
Two cookies? Five raindrops on my window sill?
If only I could see them.
Seeing those people,
suffering, dying, hiding
Then those numbers wouldn't matter.
My mouth would collapse to the ground
Hundreds of corpses lie in the streets
A number.
1+1=2 4x5=20 7-3=4...
etcetera
It's just a number, some people could care less.
On the other hand, imagine the numbers...in reality
Can we grasp its infinity?

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