Lowest Common Denominator

Lord, you told us: "Go forth and multiply."

Did you think you could manipulate us?

But we are contrary creatures:

We've been dividing ever since.

You reckoned without us calculators.

 

From I Was that Woman (Hippopotamus Press, Britain, 1989)

copyright Debjani Chatterjee

(India / Britain)

 

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