Doing The Numbers
by Dennis Bernstein
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Aunt Carrie had seven blue numbers
tattooed under her left forearm.
When I was eight, I tried to add them up
to see what their sum total was.
She stopped me in the middle
and paused: “these are the numbers
that taught me to count on nothing."
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