The Algebra, The Agenda

the two-year old snacks on

fake fruit and fake goldfish

because she's an adolescent

in training

smiling ever so widely,

ever so slyly because

she has an agenda

that's both hidden

and open

and her daddy thinks about

her traits, flaws and

inconsistencies as well as

his own traits, flaws and

inconsistencies

they are both only children

after all, he because of his

gender and she because

of her age

if her age was represented

as a ratio compared to the

common base, it would be

zero point two, and it would

be the same if the common

base was switched to the

common starting age

for adolescence

point being,

base change or not,

some things never change

like the childish attitudes

of some people great and small

base ten or base twelve,

the algebra of place value

never changes but changing

bases will create chaos of

untold proportion

just like a father

being home on a day

when daycare is in session

there in spirit,

but not in practice

and yet, home and away,

they act the same in

separate environs and

also differently, because

those are the norms we follow

and we all follow the norms

to some degree, because we

accept many precepts

almost innately

like how she accepts him

as father and how he accepts

her as daughter, just like how

base ten has become the

norm for our reckonings

the algebra and

the agenda may

never change

and neither will

the major and

the minor

disruptions

and neither will

the love biconditional

between the parent

and the child

so says the divine command

or the biological imperative

whichever one,

whatever one

is the basic of truths

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

There is some clever stuff hidden here - between the lines. I shan't spoil it by interpreting it to the masses. Suffice it to say, I took it the way I took it, I might be wrong, I might be right.:)

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, KL. I am glad you liked it.

[realmwriter]

I really love this comparison between Algebra and Agenda. I don't believe I've ever seen such a comparison as this and it works very well. I don't pretend to completely understand algebra and or other forms of much more complicated math. But I do know enough to understand that if you change the base pair, you significantly alter the equation. So much so that you can throw it into an entirely new paradigm. Wonderful write Kenneth and very fun to read.

[Kenneth The Poet]

I read this last night and I was mulling over the overall theme and I think you nailed it. Much of my work surrounds the concept of how the idea of change never changes. Certain themes fall under that like the sly smile of a child, it hides an agenda of some kind and as the child ages, the agendas of their life will change but they will never stop having an agenda. Same with algebra, this is a general place-value expression for representing a number no matter the base, the numbers may change but the expression does not.

Despite the weirdness of my comment, thank you for taking the time and effort to read my work and thank you for the wonderful review.

[realmwriter]

You're very welcome Kenneth.