corresponding to three-point-onefouronefive
then followed by a thousand million trillion
numbers with no patterns, no repeats, circumf'rence
of the circle, simple shape with so complex
a formula, irrational, the stuff of mathletes,
high IQ'd dudes with chalk dust in their nose hairs
from the boards, equations, old school, quite
appropriate since numbers are themselves as old
as time, the Fibonacci sequence found throughout
Creation but there're still the doubters who dismiss
Intelligent Design. Now that takes faith, believing
that the patterns obvious to anyone with half a brain
don't mean a thing, that it just happened.
That would be the miracle.
Not this, the delicate repeating: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and so on,
or the celebrated pi's uniqueness, stubbornly
refusing to be classified or memorized,
(perhaps the) woman of the number world.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2015
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