EMILY SCUDDER
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Math Problem

My daughter doesn't like decimal and I don't care.
Not tonight. There will be no homework fight.

She is 10. Not .10 of 100 or 1% of 1000. Not a slice
of a pie or a fraction of herself or who she will become.
She is a whole number, a factor to deal with, and some
days I would say she is Prime. A product of Herself x 1.
 
My daughter doesn't like decimal and I don't care.
Not tonight. It is twilight and she is playing outside.

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  • Home
  • Poems
    • Fiddler Crab
    • ​Thursday Night with my Daughter in the Emergency Room
    • I killed it
    • Walking to Old (Japan, 1983)
    • In the Provincetown Dunes
    • In His Sleep
    • Math Problem
  • Poems, Online
  • Feeding Time
  • Natural Instincts
  • Change of Pace