Today’s main poem has exploded. I’ve been collecting billionaire facts & memes for several years & today I began the exciting but overwhelming task of trying to poetify some of them. There are currently about 7 sections (the borders are amorphous) some are datapoems, others more like actual poems, one is quite lyrical. They’ve been fun to play with (& I don’t think I’m finished yet). They make a nice sequence (even if that too is ever-changing.)

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idols? false

II
how much is a billion?

postulation 2.1 — basically the same

if you believe billionaires 
are just, like, slightly richer 
millionaires !! think again

a million seconds 
is 11.5 days

a billion seconds 
is thirty one years !! six months !!!
plus a handful of loose days !
(the maths eventually got too complicated for me)

postulation 2.2 — conclusion

billionaires ! are ! immoral

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Day 09 – TIL about the truth concerning dragons

the truth concerning dragons

In the Old English saga the dragon 
was once a wealthy king 
jealously hoarding  & brooding 
until selfishness & avarice
turned him into a monster
— till Beowulf kills him

Smaug amassed vast loot in his Lonely 
Mountain lair plundering Middlearth 
over millennia stealing from hapless mortals
hoarding gold  Elvish armour  dwarven gems
— till Bard kills him

who says fiction doesn’t teach us how to deal with real-world issues?