11-11-2023, 05:06 AM
X-tra Special
1.
Ten achieved its pivotal position at
the head of common number systems by
being a tallest midget: when the big
guy demands ten percent, it's bearable–
eleven would too much, nine an insult.
2.
That’s what aborted Planet Five:
too heavy for a stable rocky orb,
too light to coalesce Saturnian
so it became, invisible but grand,
a ring around the Sun, not world with one.
1.
Ten achieved its pivotal position at
the head of common number systems by
being a tallest midget: when the big
guy demands ten percent, it's bearable–
eleven would too much, nine an insult.
2.
That’s what aborted Planet Five:
too heavy for a stable rocky orb,
too light to coalesce Saturnian
so it became, invisible but grand,
a ring around the Sun, not world with one.
Non-practicing atheist