Contributor's contribution: Integers, and Reasons for reticence
Two poems for politicians struggling with numbers.
Editor’s note: As Winston Churchill said someone said, there’s nothing worse than democracy. Maybe that’s because democracy demands so much damn math to make work.
This week, two aspiring European go-getters had to contend with the fact that their figures were off. Fortunately, since one is a mathematician and the other a former investment banker, we are confident that both will find ways to hold their books to account.
M.E. Grey is a British-origin poet based in Brussels.
Integers
Count these rocks. Break one in half. Half a rock is a rock. Count them again.
Reasons for reticence
Positive visualisation, publicly expressed: Hostage to fortune.