Place Value

Place Value
by Leslie Noyes

Numbers on a line:
Finite representation of infinity with
No omega and a debatable alpha.

One truly is the loneliest number.

If whole numbers claim the left side of the decimal, do broken ones occupy the right?

Why are there no oneths?

The asymmetry is worrisome, yet the pleasantly sibilant sound of thousandths compensates.

What’s your favorite number?

Mine is five and three hundred sixty-eight thousandths; although, I’ve never had it printed on a sports jersey.

Finding the Words, the Beautiful Words

I cannot love this enough! Thank you, Jan Wilberg! Redswrap.wordpress.com.

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The Prophet

This morning I wanted to remember Kahlil Gibran’s writing about children because I have been feeling lately like a life raft where all the people who were hanging on have swum away but they don’t want me to pull up anchor yet because they might need to come back and it was that feeling of needing to know my place that made me get up and find my old copy of The Prophet.

Mine was given to me by a strange friend in college. She wrote long quotes inside the front and back cover, things she thought had meaning to the two of us. I think she was a little in love with me. She was very short with long hair, parted in the middle. She lived two doors down in my dorm with a woman who was also my friend and who played the guitar late into the night…

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Burn, Baby, Burn

Burn, Baby, Burn

by Leslie Noyes

There’s a fire out in the pasture, so sound the great alarm, it’s crackling down the corn rows, now threatening the barn.

We’d fight the fire with water, but the well dried long ago, now it’s too late to save the farm, and we’ve no place to go.

So hurry, save the chickens, the horses, and the rest, so they can perish another day when we fail the next big test.

Dire warnings were extended by experts in the know, but the idiots ignored them and allowed the fires to grow.

For profits’ sake we’ll pay the price, the ultimate tragic loss, while politicians fiddle a tune for their new greedy boss.

Note: I thought I had this scheduled to post on Earth Day. 

Snapshot #154

Look how pretty the flowers in my courtyard area are. I’m just beginning to decorate this spot, so I’m calling this one, “Not a Bad Start.”

Chaffetz…Leaving So Soon?

Alotfromlydia.wordpress.com has an interesting take on Chaffetz.

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Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) this week announced he will not seek re-election when his term is up. It was then divulged he may not even finish this term. These surprising revelations raised a few questions—Was this decision made because Chaffetz doubted he would be re-elected? Was it because he could no longer defend Trump? Was it because he intended to set his cap higher and run for the office of Governor of Utah?
I don’t thinkChaffetz has suddenly become self aware enough to realize he isn’t cut out for public service. Remember, this is the man who suggested people who were worried about the cost of health insurance should give up their iPhones. He said that while wearing an Apple Watch and carrying an iPhone. This is also the man who, at a February town hall meeting was confronted by hundreds of angry constituents…

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The Pull Of Time

The Pull of Time
by Leslie Noyes

Nothing matters now,
With the exception of love
And the pull of time.


A hushed, unrushed love,
Long minutes, long limbs entwined;
Sweet slippery hours.

Time always intrudes,
Pleasures turn to promises
Measured in drab days.