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Scatter Plots

May 6, 2014
By Claudius BRONZE, Brookline, New Hampshire
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Claudius BRONZE, Brookline, New Hampshire
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"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." -William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

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When the words flood from your mouth
like the flow of gushing waterfalls,
do not bottle them up
for an silent ocean to devour.
Let them scuff the floor,
paint scatter plots on the kitchen walls.
Let them renovate this home into the waking
beat of your heart.

© Amanda L., Cumberland, MD

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This is the only instance in memory where math has entered my poems.
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