Iron Math and Society
I have so easily accepted these pulley ropes
hoisting my self's achievements for all to see.
Fames' Face
applauds Ambition's ends
and I am promised
to be uplifted
to Security and Prosperity;
Potentialities and Promises
Possibilities gleaming,
Glowing Future-Beacons
calling for Hard Work
Sacrifice and Ideals
to deliver me and mine,
where Deliverance
sits with Happiness
and Contentment
and presumably Love
and Friends too.
A lot here recommends.
But the Pulley Ropes
remind me
simultaneously,
cruelly,
paradoxically
of the zero sum-
one up for me
often is one down for thee,
Iron Math and Society,
algebraically;
gainless goals for me
pains for thee
nothing is the total
algebraically.
Iron Math Indeed.
Competition's seeds
equal
I win
you lose
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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