Tuesday, November 7, 2023

This is an ugly poem: Grizzly math

It is a grizzly math
which notation?
what risk margins deemed acceptable?
standardize my assumptions
-reported annual deaths -
4%*

Too many
no matter the calculation.

Did you draft letters?
Or not even care?
form letter?
postcard?
"kid dead"
prepared speech
or silence?

Why do many dead
first day?
Run aways?
Suicide?
Worse?
Who were you?.
I remember you only as old lady
aghast
as we perched high
you wanted us down
for safety or punishment?
That is lost to time
and the maths you prefer.

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