the new math

I don’t know what it means
to be half
I had this problem with
fractions - numerators and denominators -
all of those things
I saw on the page
that I couldn’t add
so halves
well
can you have three?
you’re more than whole, then
if you’re half something
what’s the rest of you doing?
I wonder
are you half a person? half a soul?
I’m a lot of things
but I don’t fragment
the who
I look at the aspects
and take them as whole

© lily keller 2001

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