04-11-2019, 10:31 AM
C-Notes
In spite of its unwieldy size
and awkward lack of factors
(pairs of twos and fives)
one hundred sports convenient human scale.
A sage may be discerned
by coherent speech despite surviving
his one hundred revolutions of this planet
on its oval track.
And both fellows who
set out to scale off temperature
chose one hundred increments despite
their widely variant decisions
as to endpoints, for
one hundred is a manageable heap,
each member different enough
not to vanish into static.
Human scale, as well, in that
one hundred men- one century–
can all be overawed by one centurion
who knows their names,
conducting like a symphony
but with a vine-wood staff.
And then there are those benjamins
which lubricate transactions
too deprecated to be digitized:
worth enough, these wisely smiling hundreds,
to balance artful paper up against
men’s reified desire.
In spite of its unwieldy size
and awkward lack of factors
(pairs of twos and fives)
one hundred sports convenient human scale.
A sage may be discerned
by coherent speech despite surviving
his one hundred revolutions of this planet
on its oval track.
And both fellows who
set out to scale off temperature
chose one hundred increments despite
their widely variant decisions
as to endpoints, for
one hundred is a manageable heap,
each member different enough
not to vanish into static.
Human scale, as well, in that
one hundred men- one century–
can all be overawed by one centurion
who knows their names,
conducting like a symphony
but with a vine-wood staff.
And then there are those benjamins
which lubricate transactions
too deprecated to be digitized:
worth enough, these wisely smiling hundreds,
to balance artful paper up against
men’s reified desire.
Non-practicing atheist