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Poetry: The Way Archimedes Proved Ideas

May 22, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne 1 Comment

The Way Archimedes Proved Ideas

If all the pencils and pens
in the world disappeared,

I would write your name
in the ashes on the hearth.

If all the paper burned
into smoke and computers

went suddenly dark,
I would scribble it,

in the bath, in the suds
of my oily skin.

If the damp sands washed
away with the tide,

leaving the beach alone,
I would go to the floor of

my basement and draw it
in the dust.

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  1. Ed Zahniser says

    May 24, 2021 at 11:12 AM

    Very cool poem. Thanks!

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