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Standard Deviation MAG

By Anonymous

     The newsreel buzzes
With stock quotes and casualty statistics
That help you to calculate your worth and righteousness
A ticker feeds that morbid interest
A constant flow of information
The tons of bombs, the number of miles to your next target
You give me so much math
Interesting charts and pretty graphics
To illustrate the loss of lives
Probabilities, estimations of how
Quickly
Efficiently
Effectively
You can reach your goal
A smiling anchor woman
Tells me everything I need to know
Production is up, the War Effort is successful, and everything
Is happily ever after by the time the 6 o'clock report is over.
We can all wash our dishes (our hands) of the situation
Somewhere a small man in an uncomfortable suit
Holds his calculator like a weapon.
He wears a necktie that chokes him slowly
If I dare to ask him
About the formula to calculate the value of human life
I will be told
That my comments/questions/concerns are simply
Standard deviation.





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i love this so much!

on Mar. 7 2010 at 8:15 pm
Valtarov SILVER, Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
I said to the man at the gate, "Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown." and he replied, "Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the hand of God. That will to you be better than the light and safer than the Known."

Duuude! This is so awesome!

It takes a very, very talented person to make an arguments in verse, but at this you have succeeded. So very, very awesome.