Alan Michael Parker's anthologized and highly regarded poem "Family Math" begins in the style of a typical word-problem from Algebra -- and continues with a weaving of the ways that numbers describe our lives.
Family Math by Alan Michael Parker
I am more than half the age of my father,
who has lived more than twice as long
as his father, who died at thirty-six.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
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