It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

The Mathematician Sat With The Factors

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It was his sixtieth birthday

“How do I celebrate thee? Let me count the ways.”
 
He could be true to his age:
upright and respectable
 
Or he could be
two 30-year olds:
mirrored images 
of each other


Or three 20-year olds:
all drunk yet
capable of texting,
facebooking and
instgraming

I could be
any of four 15-year olds: 
loud, proper,
cerebral or athletic
 
Or five 12-year olds:
all wrestling with puberty

...
Imagine me as thirty
2-year olds crawling
across the floor
with loaded Pampers 
...

But before the celebration began,
the birthday boy fell asleep.



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Footnote
THE MATHEMATICIAN SAT WITH THE FACTORS
is the copyrighted property of LCSoL
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