Another Digit

Pushing numbers
up one
down one.

computing
thinking

pondering

the numbers flew by

the pencil SCRATCHes against the paper
in a flurry

one would think
the graphite should burn

still writing

new formulae

keep going

keep going

push a number out of the way,
once helpful, now useless,
meaningless
into the trash
it goes.

It helped

once