Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Surd

One is
A changing value:
A moment in time;
Zero over itself
Or sum of ourselves.
One from everything;
Nothing.
Divided by anything, one;
An incomplete quotient
With a remainder of
Consciousness, or
A complete definition
Eternally underway.
I should mention
Angels here, outside
Math, intuitive, discuss
Human rise and fall.
I hear them say:
They needn't see us,
They needn't see us
At all.

2 comments:

  1. Hmm. This gives me something to contemplate as I go off to have two--not one-hernia in-and-out operations today. Reminds me first of the old song "One is the Loneliest Number of All" and then when I get to the center--"A complete definition
    Eternally underway." I see the balance that the rest of "Surd" unravels from its mathematical and phonetic roots: ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin surdus ‘deaf, mute’ ; as a mathematical term, translating Greek (Euclid) alogos ‘irrational, speechless,’ apparently via Arabic ji d r aṣamm, literally ‘deaf root.’ The phonetics senses date from the mid 18th cent." Love consulting etymologies! Hope they tuck me in again well today, angels!

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  2. Will,

    Didn't get to this until afternoon and you've doubtless undergone the procedure, but I will away to the Temple Of Hernia, Greek goddess of P.E., and negotiate your speedy recovery.

    Geo.

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