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# Simple Arithmetic
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- Published: 2024-01-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Arithmetic, try as you might to sate her with decimals and fractions of the whole, demands more than a common numerator when adding, as a point of protocol, uneven parts. And ditto with subtraction. Multiplication, th...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Arithmetic, try as you might to sate her  
with decimals and fractions of the whole,  
demands more than a common numerator  
when adding, as a point of protocol,  
uneven parts. And ditto with subtraction.  
Multiplication, that it does with ease,  
both top and bottom get in on the action,  
achieving simultaneous release.  
(I might add, parenthetically, division,  
the long one, and the short of it, in kind,  
when otherwise unwrecked by indecision  
won't pay an operator any mind)  
So calculating, you might call it scheming,  
though I believe that quality redeeming.