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Numbers In Heaven (Free verse) by Dovina

My name is 183, one of myriad, born in heaven, nestled eternally between two evens, and called, with affection, odd. Some of us are prime, numbers so perfect they were flung to distant worlds, if maybe there, their beauty too might be beheld. I take delight in knowing I am certain, fixed and real, never to be forsaken or replaced, unique, useful, unmatched and unmatchable. Pregnant with potential in Platonic minds, we odds alone, save the chosen 2, titillate their senses. Sometimes in anxious moments, Senses failing, in the wonder of it all, I feel an urgent sadness, imagine myself a figment of their god-like minds, a bipolar disturbance, perhaps a mere conveyance, no more than an assertion, a useful word. Then I feel contrived by them for pleasure and convenience, lovely only in their minds. But as the notion passes, I rest in heavenly peace, unequaled and real, fixed and founded, uniquely placed by God.

ALChemy 13-Mar-06/5:54 PM
How is 183 any different than say 69 when you already stated any odd number will due. Are there other only slightly different Dovina clones running around with different odd numbered names?
183 is only unique in it's abstract form as a meaningless number. Once you attach it to something, let's say 183 apples, then it becomes a statement of how many of the same thing are in a group. Apple 183 must have something in common with apple 182 and so on, otherwise they wouldn't be grouped and numbered. Sure you could say each apple is different but you can say that about any two things at least at a quantum level. The point is you count things based on simularities. If 183 is you it's not unique because there's at least 184 of you according to your poem. If 183 is just a number then it has no reason to be in this poem so it's junk.




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