Since 2003, SPLIT THIS ROCK has been an activist poetry organization that protests war and injustice. Besides readings and conferences, Split this Rock also connects members by emailing a POEM OF THE WEEK series. Most often, these poems are not mathematical in nature -- but one of the recent offerings is a verbal picture that uses numbers -- "meat market" by New York multidisciplinary artist Lara Attallah. I include a portion of this poem below.
meat market by Lara Atallah
after Lebanon, a country with one of the worst economic crises since the nineteenth century
the price of bread has gone up again. throngs of cars
slouch towards shuttering gas stations. the currency, a farce
with each swing of the gavel, numbers
soar. fifty thousand pounds by day’s end,
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