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Jim Webb aka Wiley Quixote
Photo credit: Malcolm J. Wilson, Kentucky
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"There is no universal solution to Y2038"
Roger Bloor, United Kingdom
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"The Red Dress"
Linda Hudson Hoagland, Virginia
Linda Hudson Hoagland, Virginia
The red dress was my favorite to wear to celebrate life, not to represent the floating specter of death.
That was the thought that was running through my mind as I fought the need to breathe. If I gave up and sucked in that life sustaining gulp of air, I knew it would be all over for the final and last time. It would not be air I would be taking in, but water that would lead to the end of my existence in this world.
Why? Why was I floating in this God forsaken pool of water?
Rapidly my mind flashes the whys and the wherefores of my predicament.
I was at a party given in my honor to celebrate the launch of my newest mystery novel with the setting in my small town. The book was filled with the essences of my many acquaintances and friends.
I should have seen this coming but I ignored the signs choosing to think only good thoughts about my angry friend.
Martha had it in her mind that she was the killer in my book.
“It’s not you, Martha. I didn’t ever have you in mind when I wrote the character into the book,” I said as I tried to calm the ruffled feathers of my friend.
“Yes, you did. You described me exactly,” screamed Martha.
“Why would you think it was about you? You didn’t kill anyone, did you?” I asked as I tried to laugh away the anger that was oozing from Martha’s pores.
“No, I didn’t kill anybody. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. You are making people think I did,” Martha snapped and snarled.
“Don’t make an issue out of it, Martha. It’s not about you,” I said sternly.
“I’m going to sue,” Martha shouted as she walked away from me.
The water was soft and comfortable. I wanted to give into the finality of no pain and suffering ever again. “Just take a breath,” I told myself. “It will be all over with a breath.”
“Nancy, do you have any idea what Martha is talking about when she said I wrote her story in my book?” I asked the lady who had been watching the whole scene.
Nancy worked at the courthouse and was familiar with some of the old cases that had been created for criminal action.
“Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. It was something that happened about fifteen years ago,” answered Nancy.
“What was it?” I asked.
“According to what I read in the old case file, Martha was arrested and charged with murder,” said Nancy.
“Who did she kill?” I asked.
“Her next door neighbor. Just like you wrote about in your book,” Nancy explained.
“How would I know anything about that? I wasn’t living here at the time,” I said.
“It was in all of the papers and on television. You might have read about it,” said Nancy,
“No, I don’t think so but I won’t swear to it,” I said.
“Give up, just one little breath,” I told myself.
“Nancy, what happened in the court case? Obviously Martha wasn’t convicted of killing her neighbor. How did she get out of it?” I asked as I tried to point out the similarities.
“Just like it happened in your book. They couldn’t prove Martha did it so the law had to let her go,” explained Nancy.
“You’re kidding,” I said as I stared in disbelief. When I was finally able to form words I said, “Did she do it?”
“Most everybody around here thinks that she did. Actually, we all thought you wanted her friendship so you could tell her story. That’s what it looks like, you know,” Nancy said.
An arm was across my chest and I was being pulled up, up through the silky softness of the water.
“She and I never talked about her being accused of murder. I don’t care what it looks like. She never mentioned it and I never asked,” I explained truthfully.
“Everything about your book reeks of Martha’s story. If you didn’t talk to her about it, it sure was one heck of a coincidence,” said a skeptical Nancy.
“We wouldn’t have been friends if the subject were discussed. Martha would have stayed away from me if she thought I was picking her brain,” I said.
I was out of the water and someone was pushing hard, really hard, on my chest. My head was jerked up so my airway would be unobstructed. It was so uncomfortable and the man kept pushing my chest and counting.
“It was purely imagination, Nancy. It was a story of how I would have committed the murder,” I explained excitedly. “If the police couldn’t prove how she killed her neighbor, how could I have done it?”
Water rushed up into my mouth, choking me. The man pushed my head to the side so the fluid wouldn’t roll back down my throat. He stopped pushing on my chest.
“Get her into the ambulance,” the man shouted.
I felt myself being lifted up and onto a cot. I seemed to be floating through the air as I was being carried to the back of the ambulance.
I was trying to look around me, to focus my eyes.
A policeman hovered over me and asked, “Who did this? Who pushed you into the water?”
“Martha,” I said as I closed my eyes. “She will get what she deserves this time.”
Martha was handcuffed by the policeman who had been questioning me. She was taken away kicking and screaming.
My only thought was, “Finally my sister’s killer will be punished.”
That was the thought that was running through my mind as I fought the need to breathe. If I gave up and sucked in that life sustaining gulp of air, I knew it would be all over for the final and last time. It would not be air I would be taking in, but water that would lead to the end of my existence in this world.
Why? Why was I floating in this God forsaken pool of water?
Rapidly my mind flashes the whys and the wherefores of my predicament.
I was at a party given in my honor to celebrate the launch of my newest mystery novel with the setting in my small town. The book was filled with the essences of my many acquaintances and friends.
I should have seen this coming but I ignored the signs choosing to think only good thoughts about my angry friend.
Martha had it in her mind that she was the killer in my book.
“It’s not you, Martha. I didn’t ever have you in mind when I wrote the character into the book,” I said as I tried to calm the ruffled feathers of my friend.
“Yes, you did. You described me exactly,” screamed Martha.
“Why would you think it was about you? You didn’t kill anyone, did you?” I asked as I tried to laugh away the anger that was oozing from Martha’s pores.
“No, I didn’t kill anybody. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. You are making people think I did,” Martha snapped and snarled.
“Don’t make an issue out of it, Martha. It’s not about you,” I said sternly.
“I’m going to sue,” Martha shouted as she walked away from me.
The water was soft and comfortable. I wanted to give into the finality of no pain and suffering ever again. “Just take a breath,” I told myself. “It will be all over with a breath.”
“Nancy, do you have any idea what Martha is talking about when she said I wrote her story in my book?” I asked the lady who had been watching the whole scene.
Nancy worked at the courthouse and was familiar with some of the old cases that had been created for criminal action.
“Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. It was something that happened about fifteen years ago,” answered Nancy.
“What was it?” I asked.
“According to what I read in the old case file, Martha was arrested and charged with murder,” said Nancy.
“Who did she kill?” I asked.
“Her next door neighbor. Just like you wrote about in your book,” Nancy explained.
“How would I know anything about that? I wasn’t living here at the time,” I said.
“It was in all of the papers and on television. You might have read about it,” said Nancy,
“No, I don’t think so but I won’t swear to it,” I said.
“Give up, just one little breath,” I told myself.
“Nancy, what happened in the court case? Obviously Martha wasn’t convicted of killing her neighbor. How did she get out of it?” I asked as I tried to point out the similarities.
“Just like it happened in your book. They couldn’t prove Martha did it so the law had to let her go,” explained Nancy.
“You’re kidding,” I said as I stared in disbelief. When I was finally able to form words I said, “Did she do it?”
“Most everybody around here thinks that she did. Actually, we all thought you wanted her friendship so you could tell her story. That’s what it looks like, you know,” Nancy said.
An arm was across my chest and I was being pulled up, up through the silky softness of the water.
“She and I never talked about her being accused of murder. I don’t care what it looks like. She never mentioned it and I never asked,” I explained truthfully.
“Everything about your book reeks of Martha’s story. If you didn’t talk to her about it, it sure was one heck of a coincidence,” said a skeptical Nancy.
“We wouldn’t have been friends if the subject were discussed. Martha would have stayed away from me if she thought I was picking her brain,” I said.
I was out of the water and someone was pushing hard, really hard, on my chest. My head was jerked up so my airway would be unobstructed. It was so uncomfortable and the man kept pushing my chest and counting.
“It was purely imagination, Nancy. It was a story of how I would have committed the murder,” I explained excitedly. “If the police couldn’t prove how she killed her neighbor, how could I have done it?”
Water rushed up into my mouth, choking me. The man pushed my head to the side so the fluid wouldn’t roll back down my throat. He stopped pushing on my chest.
“Get her into the ambulance,” the man shouted.
I felt myself being lifted up and onto a cot. I seemed to be floating through the air as I was being carried to the back of the ambulance.
I was trying to look around me, to focus my eyes.
A policeman hovered over me and asked, “Who did this? Who pushed you into the water?”
“Martha,” I said as I closed my eyes. “She will get what she deserves this time.”
Martha was handcuffed by the policeman who had been questioning me. She was taken away kicking and screaming.
My only thought was, “Finally my sister’s killer will be punished.”
"Math Final"
Jim Meirose, New Jersey
Jim Meirose, New Jersey
Final Exam in Math 424 8 May-Do 15 of these problems.
True or False: Bendixson’s first name was PeeWee. When. Who. Someone stood on something. Chair. Ladder. Slowly the longer hand slides round and round up by the coffeepot. Not. Bullseye black dot at the center of the clock. The pens the paperwork the desks the phones; the edges on top on sides and on bottom all the same. The top edges of the partitions the worn down flat carpet rug or carpet carpet or rug version number three ha ha the whiteshirts go to these desks pluck up their phones and talk to no one. What after the end beyond the wall what on earth is there? My urine is dark Dad take me to a doctor. Using a Lyapunov function of the form V = ax2 +cy2, show that the origin is a stable equilibrium point of the system x 0 = −x 3 + 2y 3, y 0 = −2xy2. Old because the clear plastic is pitted and clouded across but why buy a new one when the old one’s as good as as as? As? Sit. The couch the chair. Piss. See him on the phone over there Madge he must have this deal cut so deep in our favor Madge he will be in trouble at end-of-month with the top cheese of this place cheeses bosses Gods or megamen who danced this business into being hut hut hut into being into being look. Pity the fool gets what they want. What is there was no reason why think think there has to be mon mon! Let there be beets, baby. Write down the equation for a spring with linear restoring force, damping (small, subcritical) proportional to velocity. The cliff edge the cliff edge just wanted to see a view seeing a view though and jumping off are two mon mon different damned thing-things pop! There, that—it’s there drowning thus save the fucker, nitwit! Can you not see the final entry occurs in the alto in bar thirteen? Explain your notation. Rewrite as a 2 × 2 first-order system. Describe the phase portrait of this system. All swathed in clothing. The rule passed after the edenfall. Flush. No not the dogname. Wow the time’s not gone moving, let it go make it move. Books in a pile. See Madge no one here would take anyone for a ride Madge no one here would cause a customer to wobble out stunned with all empty pockets turned out like a mugging victim Madge yes a slashed-down mugging victim robbed of all signs of lifeblood Madge. Gonna guess the brave thing’s to jump and save the doomed submen—open it Father! Father! Father, I have done it—Mousie! Hope you don’t catch fat trout fever over there. Two point masses in the plane move according to the gravitational attraction between them (i.e., inverse-square law; don’t worry about the correct physical constants of proportionality). Formulate as an n × n first-order system. (What is n?). Pile of books. Block of wood. Sawmill. Debarking machines. Forests. Bambi Bambi man is in the forest danger. Each sound is a note. Even if it’s not. In the head hit the words. Found laid out at three am in the neverswept back alley in the deepest dark place within Flamingtown Madge, come up on by a big police times two Madge braking down their big Crown Vic saying, Hey look Jeff; is that a corpse there hey look Jeff; is that a real life dead body hey look Jeff. What have you done this time this time no my God what no no cut him down tell him I aced a math quiz—I aced a math quiz—by all that’s Dandy Dick Landy, drop that sax now there’s no need. Use Lyapunov function of form c(x 2 + y 2) to show that the origin is an asymptotically stable equilibrium point of x 0 = y − xf(x 2 + y 2), y 0 = −x − yf(x 2 + y 2), where f(0) = 0 and f > 0 otherwise. Write down the linearization of this system at the origin. With respect to the linearized system is the origin asymptotically stable? The day. Not the twinkling stars other side of the wall. Woke up. The blue got brushed over. Sparkle glow hidden no difference still; planets and stars planets or stars planet stars stars. Motley Crue. What do you ‘tink yes I ‘tink the hot night chief would want us in deep cover; that makes big sense Jeff let’s do it he would want us is he wants us and we don’t want it to stale up into he used to want us but now no what the hell are Jeff and that kid partner he got good for anyway. It’s as I suspected. Father gripped his head the last thing into it was I aced a Math quiz what’s wrong in the kitchen joy thank God it is over—wait Rutt Hut, it means there’s nothing to me stop right there now eh so what is the point Mouse huh? Let H be a smooth function of two variables. Show that H(x, y) is conserved (not changing with time) under the flow of the system x 0 = ∂H/∂y, y 0 = −∂H/∂x. Planets planetsstars gosh you lost the crowd kind sirs, take a step back or we can’t play on. The concert’s just started and already we can’t play on. Because of you. Thus Jeff and the kid parked the black and white in a conceivably invisible space and remote-bugged the dealer with the help of a billion or two dollar bribe to a greenhorn of a tousled here Lassie style Timmyman barnyard rube wrenchboy of a hound dog. The sax is shut down for one more day—aced a Math quiz Mother happy in the kitchen its over its over until next time tomorrow when then not tomorrow when then? By this dismissal he indicated the charges of sorcery were not proved. State the Poincar´e-Bendixson theorem. Use it to show that the system x 0 = y + x − xr2, y 0 = y − x − yr2 has a cycle about the origin. You and your stripping. Nobody asked you to strip; no shoes no service. What the fuck’s the matter, Chuck? Can’t you fucking read? Okay you asked for it. Hey Gustav. Bounce this fool. And it came down to each day almost a couple or more accurately a few stunned disheveled men with pockets turned out stumbled out from that this very Flamingtown dealer-carman-shippe joint—hey look Jeff yah yah Flamingtown Carman Shippe Motorsdoo dis and dat. Father math did math did math math math so math must be punished—so twitchy my head this minute please I got a bug boring in fast. Prove: Let A be a 2 × 2 constant matrix. If the trace of A (the sum of the diagonal elements) is not zero, then the 2×2 system x 0 = Ax has no cycles. I pity the fool. I fool fool fool, the pity. I-pity-the-fool. Pity. I pity. The fool. Chuck you ought not have tried to kick a hole in our door. Yah yah this place big Madge so big nobody here would rip us a deep one the call to the manager has gone many minutes now; hey Jeff you were quitebright in thinking we should tap the bug-ears in the postage stamp of a huddle room in the after-hours upstairs backcorner of the single-story dealership. Beaten down fought down as in dukes up men! Babypeep! True or false (explain). Consider the nonlinear system SYSTEM1: x 0 = g(x) with g(0) = 0. Let A be the Jacobian matrix of g at 0, and consider the system SYSTEM2: dy/dt = Ay. If the origin is stable with respect to SYSTEM2, then the origin is also stable with respect to SYSTEM1. This is one you can’t turn around my friend. Out out say the clock hands. Food what food? Lunch what lunch? Go how go? Tie left tie right do not hold breath; I need a water. The very room the big genius-master believed to be the best secretly impregnable leadlined no not really but just as safe plotting-spot—yah there they are this very instant attending a pep rally smack down the remember this button on the timetrap as they get yelled up with suchlike as, We must wear the white shirt. He doesn’t even like math—he hates it. He’s over there beating his head against the wall to get to the end and succeed. That’s all he wants—to prove he can make it, is a hot cheap fuck of a fib-lie. Plus here’s a tip; buy Sotex. Consider d 2y/dt2 + p(t)y = q(t). Suppose p has a power-series expansion about t = 0 with radius of convergence 2 and q has a power-series expansion with radius of convergence 1. (a) What can you say about the radius of convergence of the power-series expansion of y in powers of t? (b) What about the series in powers of t − 3? (c) Suppose y(0) = 1 and y 0 (0) = 3. Hut hut hut. Yawn. Find, in terms of p and q, the coefficient of t 2 in this power-series expansion. (d) Same question as (a) but now assume q(t) ≡ 0. Hear that shit? That’s been the problem all these years. Tightstrung sneakerholes. Not a lung sickness. Out three o’clock. Out. The light is bright. Doortap. Oh the nipple-shaped clouds hang. Oh the nipple-shaped fungibloom. Yah we must wear the white shirts the red ties and the short hair. We must each be nothing particular but pure salesman. When they see us we must be car men equaling cars. Who dresses like this no one dresses like this but Flamingtown car men equaling cars. Way up and way down and both sides of the road this neat look grew this business. It spreads across before me, crying again and again and again, Guess the secret word in twenty-nine tries and you will be released! Find a formula for the phase curves (curves in the phase plane) of the system x 0 = −2y, y 0 = 3x. Fungus-mushrooms lay dissolving in a half day of hot. Why bother why bother when it’s all dissolving no matter what. No matter what. Husks will lie bone dry fertilizer for years. Smell the garden department. Oh sorry I’m sorry. This is the reason we can never look different; the superdistinct non-identifiable white shirt short hair glasses and red tie car men who equal nothing but cars. A step further it must go though. Starting immediately after this rally, a step forward we will take, or better yet; a half step, so here. Released—freed—free—free ledgefall never was no—consider the system x 0 = Ax, where the 3 × 3 matrix A has a real eigenvalue −2 and a pair of complex conjugate eigenvalues. Prove there exists a solution x(t) (t ≥ 0) which traces out a straight line segment in threedimensional space. Better said than even this problem, is smell moist nature. Pallet racks orange and green and all browsing multisexual customers therefore I decree should all instantly dissolve. Sorry for the error. Short walk. Thank God for Dr. Scholl and his private formula, Spinal drip tap shoe inserts. See this sales floor sample big fat car man’s face. This car man’s face sadly equals other than cars. Today we change the car man’s face to equal only cars. A moment’s shallow research and a lick at God’s toetip told me a green car man’s face equals nothing but green; does not point out to this that or the other but just to itself. Don’t be a flapping slaphappy fishyfat splattering fishy-fool, no; once more do well at math like he did that day when math killed Stannie. Find general solution to u 00 − u = 2e 4t. Good shoes. Cement up and down all hard cracked one time in a while. Slap yah brought it got it. Wallets never look the way they feel when back behind pocketed the altered mind me babe. Wild the naturebabe. And a car man’s face pointing only to itself equals only cars. So I say to you today, white shirted red tied green faced man what what w-h-a-t super-exclusively equals cars. So the oathnow before we flood out over the selling floor: Mathie killed my daddy-Stan—math math math—killed the daddy-Stan—no shut up shut up s-h-u-t up and focus on finding a general solution to u 00 + u = sin(µt), where µ is a constant. Plus he’s been slapped to make sure. Slap mister wallet to make sure. Not all hereabouts are to be trusted. Good. Not all. Bad. Not all. Stratiform non-convective. Ah no just a cloud. Cumulonimbus. Bat the cloud-scene, Tommy! Bat it now Dad! Then, heat up the breeders! What I said yah.
Brothers in Flamingtown Motors salesforce!
We are the friendless of this earth.
Every man's hand is against us.
Revenge is the cosmic toggle-word click up kills click down resurrects so take revenge revenge flail it down whip it—just shut up and do the case µ = 1. 1 2. Learned that one as a boy. Yah boy. Boy! The air is not that’s how clean it is. Cleanest of all is not there at all. Yearning all yearning they come ‘cause they’re all yearning? Or was it they’re burning you yelled? Oh, shit.
We have been kicked, spat upon—and driven back to our desks, unsealed deals in our hands, again and again like wild things.
My father was a salesman, and he was nearly hanged.
Baby baby you’re condemned. Find a continuously differentiable particular solution to d 2u dt2 + u = (0 t < 0 1 t ≥ 0). Where do they come. No not that. No guesses. No go figure. Truck of noise. Car swishes. Exceed your allotment and they switch to silent. Silent gliding. Sugar gliders. Domino the sugar glider. Yonder the slathering babypeep blows. Oh—I put that in the big anus across the room.
His father was fired for lack of great monthly numbers.
And what of your kinsmen, your fathers and their fathers, and their fathers' fathers before them?
My brothers in sales, a new day is at hand.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal. Solve y 0 + 2xy = p(x), y(0) = 1, first for p(x) = x, then for p(x) = x 2 . Squirrel hop hop. Elephant burial ground. Squirrel burial ground. One as stupid and silly as the next. That car color must be popular this season. But how the fuck. Bursts of shit. Man oh man, I always knew deep in my heart they sucked. Yah I said it—you’re a fuckup of a natureboy! So what? I have read the specs and suggested prices for the new models, and they are good.
Three nights ago, a great sedan’s horn blared from the cloud way out up the left.
Another answered from the cloud way out up the right, in reply.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower. Find general solution of tdx/dt = x. That is just a flickin’ flameflick of an imaginary lie. Spit. It’s a good day not a lot of phlegm. Phlegmflow passing sticking drying hacking coughing and spitting creates the classical prototypical sore throat; like there’s lumpy dead dry hens stuck down there. What does that mean, my sales force children?
It means that Mother Big-Auto, in her palace Detroit, with all her arms outstretched, hugs us to her bosom, welcoming us back as hot salesmen—hot salesman awakened from a sleep of another full model year.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter. Explain why phase curves of an autonomous 2 × 2 system can’t cross, whereas those of a nonautonomous system can. Can phase curves of a 3 × 3 autonomous system cross? The syndrome. Veils and veils of crisscrossing diaphanous vocal chords red and raw are part of the bargain. Stomach acid. Color. Nodule. Kill all the Rivers. Gone is that side of the road all of a sudden fill the can with small nails and shake well; that will surely wake the dogs. Let the neophytes and their teachers draw near.
Where are the hot as shit quicktalking negotiators?
Give them their clipboards sharp pencils wide desks and phones.
Give them their new model literature spec sheets and floormobiles.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes. Predator-prey system: dx/dt = x − xy, dy/dt = −2y + xy. Find approximate formula for the period of the cycles very near the equilibrium point (2, 1) in the x-y plane. So must have crossed over after looking both ways safely. Small children in each hand. Keep small children safe no matter whose. It’s the instinct. Up the curb on the grass the door comes. Turn down that crappy music immediately, Kent. Swear by our Mother Big-Auto up in Detroit to be thrice faithful to her and to me and to our pure-white-shirt red tie order, and to all of us.
Rise, white shirted red tie short hair in glasses Flamingtown brothers.
Stick on your spectacles! Rise and sell!
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he. Prove: If C is a cycle then the line integral Z C dy xy − 2y is equal to the period of the cycle. Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right. Cirrostratus. Up the curb on the grass the door comes. Altostratus. Up the curb on the grass the door comes Mister Wipeout in the flesh. Large piles of flesh-dump fill raw material bins in the meat factory. Sell, lest you be sold yourselves!
Sell for the love of Selling!
Sell for the love of Big-Auto the great Mother!
Sell!
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t. A basin contains 100 gallons of pure water. At time zero, a saline solution (containing 2 grams of salt per gallon) is introduced to the basin at the rate of 5 gallons per minute. The well-mixed solution is pumped out at the same rate. What is the concentration of salt (in grams per gallon) of the solution in the basin t minutes later? And, it’s right the sign says Math Final. Stratocumulus. Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right the sign says Math Final mister punch-in-the-gut. Cumulonimbus. Hot clouds! Sell!
Sell!
By all that’s big-dawg shirt ass ‘da monkeycut, sell-men!
Sell, sell; yah sell sell right now!
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t what you want Maalox okay we’ll bring some. Find two solutions to y 0 = p |y|, y(0) = 0. In the general case y 0 = f(y), what aspect of f is related to this failure of uniqueness? Extra credit: Find a 3rd solution. Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right the sign says Math Final mister punch-in-the-gut but there’s ages ages like that Russian scripto-guy said. Nimbostratus. Okay you dragged me all the way down here to watch. So shut up and let’s fucking watch! Madge he put the phone down. Madge he really be all herecomin’! Excitement’s-R-Us this bright moment! Okay Jeff I heard enough call this in. The whiteshirt pushed back the desk the chair and everyplace really spun-turned around to the nibbly fishpair. Quick quick quick they are all up there tight one swat and we’ll have them. Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t what you want Maalox okay we’ll bring some here you go. Be sure to shake well. Write down the Picard iteration for dy/dx = xy2, y(0) = 1. (Calculate first few iterates.) Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right the sign says Math Final mister punch-in-the-gut but there’s ages ages like that Russian scripto-guy said so be cool. Madge this is it. I spoke to the manager. Hey precinct desk pappy, put down the gaslit night news. Swing your feet off the desk sit up pay attention we are really really goin’ in! He’s okayed the deal; congratulations. Jeff led the way across the road. I knew that when we crossed the sill this’d be a live one. Time must have a stop. Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t what you want Maalox okay we’ll bring some here you go okay come on no it’s not possible without the handcuffs. Give example of an equation dx/dt = f(x) for which some solutions are defined for all t and some are not. Thank God I know my fucking clouds or I’d most likely never have the balls to go in but here I am there it is there they are find one sit down the seat pushes up my butt. Close in close in. Penflash. Inklines. Squirrely but still legal. Hold back hold. Need a good bust now—be careful. Where the hell’s our bullhorn? That’s it, all done. Rising and grinning and shaking hands. They’re up; go go go all shouting like it’s some coppy-cop swat-show. Stick on your spectacles! Rise and sell! The pens the paperwork the desks the phones. No it’s not possible come on its time. Find by one step of Euler’s method an approximation to x(.1), where x 0 = x − 3y and y 0 = x + 2y, x(0) = y(0) = 1. But don’t touch yet. No not. No don’t touch. Yet. Because; homospheric types include the ten tropospheric genera and two additional major types above the troposphere—and lastly I do know as the answer to this one that is nonsense. Sell, lest you be sold yourselves! Hands up get down why do you mug? Take delivery next week same day same time. Madge you free? Yah free. Sell for the love of Selling! The edges on top on sides and on bottom all the same are all free. Why do you mug why do you sell? The top edges of the partitions. No it’s not possible without the handcuffs; stop asking just come it’s time. Estimate the rate of temperature decay (explain what is meant by ‘rate’) for large time in a heat-conducting rod of length 4, if the temperature satisfies the heat equation ut = 2uxx, with the boundaries maintained at zero temperature. Are there exceptional solutions with faster decay? The cumulus genus includes three species as defined by vertical size. So I am not so stupid as generally known and felt. Felt that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers. Sell for the love of Big-Auto the great Mother; and for the sake of them plucky-chickens chicken-scratching at the worn down super-seedy flat carpet rug or carpet. See you then Thanks again bye bye carpet or rug version number three; Sell! Yes then carpet or rug version number four; Sell! Jeff carpet or rug version number five. No it’s not possible come it’s time. Find first 5 terms of the power series (about t = 0) of the solution to y 00 + cos(t)y = 1, y(0) = 1, y0 (0) = 2. For what t does this series converge? The butt presses down all is in balance and my God yes—nothing like the smell of a pair of brand new supersharp number two’s. What is the number of three-digit multiples of twenty-nine? Sell! Number six Jeff, Sell! Number Jeff seven, Sell! Jeff eight, Sell! Nine Sell! Ten—aha—good work Jeff. Good bust Jeff. Yeh good Jeff good Jeff. Yes me pat yo’ head yo’ head lil’ Jeff. And we all go home in one piece tonight, stated safe Madge to the greenfaced whiteshirt when they finally left. For the last time; no it is not possible without the handcuffs. If A a is real symmetric 3×3 matrix with eigenvalues −1, −3, −5, and x(t) is a solution to dx/dt = Ax, describe the behavior of x(t) for large t > 0. Together see I know that too I can ace this so bring it on. The pencils feel cold. Sorry, stop asking. Come on keep moving its time. Pity those who never come to life before they die.
True or False: Bendixson’s first name was PeeWee. When. Who. Someone stood on something. Chair. Ladder. Slowly the longer hand slides round and round up by the coffeepot. Not. Bullseye black dot at the center of the clock. The pens the paperwork the desks the phones; the edges on top on sides and on bottom all the same. The top edges of the partitions the worn down flat carpet rug or carpet carpet or rug version number three ha ha the whiteshirts go to these desks pluck up their phones and talk to no one. What after the end beyond the wall what on earth is there? My urine is dark Dad take me to a doctor. Using a Lyapunov function of the form V = ax2 +cy2, show that the origin is a stable equilibrium point of the system x 0 = −x 3 + 2y 3, y 0 = −2xy2. Old because the clear plastic is pitted and clouded across but why buy a new one when the old one’s as good as as as? As? Sit. The couch the chair. Piss. See him on the phone over there Madge he must have this deal cut so deep in our favor Madge he will be in trouble at end-of-month with the top cheese of this place cheeses bosses Gods or megamen who danced this business into being hut hut hut into being into being look. Pity the fool gets what they want. What is there was no reason why think think there has to be mon mon! Let there be beets, baby. Write down the equation for a spring with linear restoring force, damping (small, subcritical) proportional to velocity. The cliff edge the cliff edge just wanted to see a view seeing a view though and jumping off are two mon mon different damned thing-things pop! There, that—it’s there drowning thus save the fucker, nitwit! Can you not see the final entry occurs in the alto in bar thirteen? Explain your notation. Rewrite as a 2 × 2 first-order system. Describe the phase portrait of this system. All swathed in clothing. The rule passed after the edenfall. Flush. No not the dogname. Wow the time’s not gone moving, let it go make it move. Books in a pile. See Madge no one here would take anyone for a ride Madge no one here would cause a customer to wobble out stunned with all empty pockets turned out like a mugging victim Madge yes a slashed-down mugging victim robbed of all signs of lifeblood Madge. Gonna guess the brave thing’s to jump and save the doomed submen—open it Father! Father! Father, I have done it—Mousie! Hope you don’t catch fat trout fever over there. Two point masses in the plane move according to the gravitational attraction between them (i.e., inverse-square law; don’t worry about the correct physical constants of proportionality). Formulate as an n × n first-order system. (What is n?). Pile of books. Block of wood. Sawmill. Debarking machines. Forests. Bambi Bambi man is in the forest danger. Each sound is a note. Even if it’s not. In the head hit the words. Found laid out at three am in the neverswept back alley in the deepest dark place within Flamingtown Madge, come up on by a big police times two Madge braking down their big Crown Vic saying, Hey look Jeff; is that a corpse there hey look Jeff; is that a real life dead body hey look Jeff. What have you done this time this time no my God what no no cut him down tell him I aced a math quiz—I aced a math quiz—by all that’s Dandy Dick Landy, drop that sax now there’s no need. Use Lyapunov function of form c(x 2 + y 2) to show that the origin is an asymptotically stable equilibrium point of x 0 = y − xf(x 2 + y 2), y 0 = −x − yf(x 2 + y 2), where f(0) = 0 and f > 0 otherwise. Write down the linearization of this system at the origin. With respect to the linearized system is the origin asymptotically stable? The day. Not the twinkling stars other side of the wall. Woke up. The blue got brushed over. Sparkle glow hidden no difference still; planets and stars planets or stars planet stars stars. Motley Crue. What do you ‘tink yes I ‘tink the hot night chief would want us in deep cover; that makes big sense Jeff let’s do it he would want us is he wants us and we don’t want it to stale up into he used to want us but now no what the hell are Jeff and that kid partner he got good for anyway. It’s as I suspected. Father gripped his head the last thing into it was I aced a Math quiz what’s wrong in the kitchen joy thank God it is over—wait Rutt Hut, it means there’s nothing to me stop right there now eh so what is the point Mouse huh? Let H be a smooth function of two variables. Show that H(x, y) is conserved (not changing with time) under the flow of the system x 0 = ∂H/∂y, y 0 = −∂H/∂x. Planets planetsstars gosh you lost the crowd kind sirs, take a step back or we can’t play on. The concert’s just started and already we can’t play on. Because of you. Thus Jeff and the kid parked the black and white in a conceivably invisible space and remote-bugged the dealer with the help of a billion or two dollar bribe to a greenhorn of a tousled here Lassie style Timmyman barnyard rube wrenchboy of a hound dog. The sax is shut down for one more day—aced a Math quiz Mother happy in the kitchen its over its over until next time tomorrow when then not tomorrow when then? By this dismissal he indicated the charges of sorcery were not proved. State the Poincar´e-Bendixson theorem. Use it to show that the system x 0 = y + x − xr2, y 0 = y − x − yr2 has a cycle about the origin. You and your stripping. Nobody asked you to strip; no shoes no service. What the fuck’s the matter, Chuck? Can’t you fucking read? Okay you asked for it. Hey Gustav. Bounce this fool. And it came down to each day almost a couple or more accurately a few stunned disheveled men with pockets turned out stumbled out from that this very Flamingtown dealer-carman-shippe joint—hey look Jeff yah yah Flamingtown Carman Shippe Motorsdoo dis and dat. Father math did math did math math math so math must be punished—so twitchy my head this minute please I got a bug boring in fast. Prove: Let A be a 2 × 2 constant matrix. If the trace of A (the sum of the diagonal elements) is not zero, then the 2×2 system x 0 = Ax has no cycles. I pity the fool. I fool fool fool, the pity. I-pity-the-fool. Pity. I pity. The fool. Chuck you ought not have tried to kick a hole in our door. Yah yah this place big Madge so big nobody here would rip us a deep one the call to the manager has gone many minutes now; hey Jeff you were quitebright in thinking we should tap the bug-ears in the postage stamp of a huddle room in the after-hours upstairs backcorner of the single-story dealership. Beaten down fought down as in dukes up men! Babypeep! True or false (explain). Consider the nonlinear system SYSTEM1: x 0 = g(x) with g(0) = 0. Let A be the Jacobian matrix of g at 0, and consider the system SYSTEM2: dy/dt = Ay. If the origin is stable with respect to SYSTEM2, then the origin is also stable with respect to SYSTEM1. This is one you can’t turn around my friend. Out out say the clock hands. Food what food? Lunch what lunch? Go how go? Tie left tie right do not hold breath; I need a water. The very room the big genius-master believed to be the best secretly impregnable leadlined no not really but just as safe plotting-spot—yah there they are this very instant attending a pep rally smack down the remember this button on the timetrap as they get yelled up with suchlike as, We must wear the white shirt. He doesn’t even like math—he hates it. He’s over there beating his head against the wall to get to the end and succeed. That’s all he wants—to prove he can make it, is a hot cheap fuck of a fib-lie. Plus here’s a tip; buy Sotex. Consider d 2y/dt2 + p(t)y = q(t). Suppose p has a power-series expansion about t = 0 with radius of convergence 2 and q has a power-series expansion with radius of convergence 1. (a) What can you say about the radius of convergence of the power-series expansion of y in powers of t? (b) What about the series in powers of t − 3? (c) Suppose y(0) = 1 and y 0 (0) = 3. Hut hut hut. Yawn. Find, in terms of p and q, the coefficient of t 2 in this power-series expansion. (d) Same question as (a) but now assume q(t) ≡ 0. Hear that shit? That’s been the problem all these years. Tightstrung sneakerholes. Not a lung sickness. Out three o’clock. Out. The light is bright. Doortap. Oh the nipple-shaped clouds hang. Oh the nipple-shaped fungibloom. Yah we must wear the white shirts the red ties and the short hair. We must each be nothing particular but pure salesman. When they see us we must be car men equaling cars. Who dresses like this no one dresses like this but Flamingtown car men equaling cars. Way up and way down and both sides of the road this neat look grew this business. It spreads across before me, crying again and again and again, Guess the secret word in twenty-nine tries and you will be released! Find a formula for the phase curves (curves in the phase plane) of the system x 0 = −2y, y 0 = 3x. Fungus-mushrooms lay dissolving in a half day of hot. Why bother why bother when it’s all dissolving no matter what. No matter what. Husks will lie bone dry fertilizer for years. Smell the garden department. Oh sorry I’m sorry. This is the reason we can never look different; the superdistinct non-identifiable white shirt short hair glasses and red tie car men who equal nothing but cars. A step further it must go though. Starting immediately after this rally, a step forward we will take, or better yet; a half step, so here. Released—freed—free—free ledgefall never was no—consider the system x 0 = Ax, where the 3 × 3 matrix A has a real eigenvalue −2 and a pair of complex conjugate eigenvalues. Prove there exists a solution x(t) (t ≥ 0) which traces out a straight line segment in threedimensional space. Better said than even this problem, is smell moist nature. Pallet racks orange and green and all browsing multisexual customers therefore I decree should all instantly dissolve. Sorry for the error. Short walk. Thank God for Dr. Scholl and his private formula, Spinal drip tap shoe inserts. See this sales floor sample big fat car man’s face. This car man’s face sadly equals other than cars. Today we change the car man’s face to equal only cars. A moment’s shallow research and a lick at God’s toetip told me a green car man’s face equals nothing but green; does not point out to this that or the other but just to itself. Don’t be a flapping slaphappy fishyfat splattering fishy-fool, no; once more do well at math like he did that day when math killed Stannie. Find general solution to u 00 − u = 2e 4t. Good shoes. Cement up and down all hard cracked one time in a while. Slap yah brought it got it. Wallets never look the way they feel when back behind pocketed the altered mind me babe. Wild the naturebabe. And a car man’s face pointing only to itself equals only cars. So I say to you today, white shirted red tied green faced man what what w-h-a-t super-exclusively equals cars. So the oathnow before we flood out over the selling floor: Mathie killed my daddy-Stan—math math math—killed the daddy-Stan—no shut up shut up s-h-u-t up and focus on finding a general solution to u 00 + u = sin(µt), where µ is a constant. Plus he’s been slapped to make sure. Slap mister wallet to make sure. Not all hereabouts are to be trusted. Good. Not all. Bad. Not all. Stratiform non-convective. Ah no just a cloud. Cumulonimbus. Bat the cloud-scene, Tommy! Bat it now Dad! Then, heat up the breeders! What I said yah.
Brothers in Flamingtown Motors salesforce!
We are the friendless of this earth.
Every man's hand is against us.
Revenge is the cosmic toggle-word click up kills click down resurrects so take revenge revenge flail it down whip it—just shut up and do the case µ = 1. 1 2. Learned that one as a boy. Yah boy. Boy! The air is not that’s how clean it is. Cleanest of all is not there at all. Yearning all yearning they come ‘cause they’re all yearning? Or was it they’re burning you yelled? Oh, shit.
We have been kicked, spat upon—and driven back to our desks, unsealed deals in our hands, again and again like wild things.
My father was a salesman, and he was nearly hanged.
Baby baby you’re condemned. Find a continuously differentiable particular solution to d 2u dt2 + u = (0 t < 0 1 t ≥ 0). Where do they come. No not that. No guesses. No go figure. Truck of noise. Car swishes. Exceed your allotment and they switch to silent. Silent gliding. Sugar gliders. Domino the sugar glider. Yonder the slathering babypeep blows. Oh—I put that in the big anus across the room.
His father was fired for lack of great monthly numbers.
And what of your kinsmen, your fathers and their fathers, and their fathers' fathers before them?
My brothers in sales, a new day is at hand.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal. Solve y 0 + 2xy = p(x), y(0) = 1, first for p(x) = x, then for p(x) = x 2 . Squirrel hop hop. Elephant burial ground. Squirrel burial ground. One as stupid and silly as the next. That car color must be popular this season. But how the fuck. Bursts of shit. Man oh man, I always knew deep in my heart they sucked. Yah I said it—you’re a fuckup of a natureboy! So what? I have read the specs and suggested prices for the new models, and they are good.
Three nights ago, a great sedan’s horn blared from the cloud way out up the left.
Another answered from the cloud way out up the right, in reply.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower. Find general solution of tdx/dt = x. That is just a flickin’ flameflick of an imaginary lie. Spit. It’s a good day not a lot of phlegm. Phlegmflow passing sticking drying hacking coughing and spitting creates the classical prototypical sore throat; like there’s lumpy dead dry hens stuck down there. What does that mean, my sales force children?
It means that Mother Big-Auto, in her palace Detroit, with all her arms outstretched, hugs us to her bosom, welcoming us back as hot salesmen—hot salesman awakened from a sleep of another full model year.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter. Explain why phase curves of an autonomous 2 × 2 system can’t cross, whereas those of a nonautonomous system can. Can phase curves of a 3 × 3 autonomous system cross? The syndrome. Veils and veils of crisscrossing diaphanous vocal chords red and raw are part of the bargain. Stomach acid. Color. Nodule. Kill all the Rivers. Gone is that side of the road all of a sudden fill the can with small nails and shake well; that will surely wake the dogs. Let the neophytes and their teachers draw near.
Where are the hot as shit quicktalking negotiators?
Give them their clipboards sharp pencils wide desks and phones.
Give them their new model literature spec sheets and floormobiles.
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes. Predator-prey system: dx/dt = x − xy, dy/dt = −2y + xy. Find approximate formula for the period of the cycles very near the equilibrium point (2, 1) in the x-y plane. So must have crossed over after looking both ways safely. Small children in each hand. Keep small children safe no matter whose. It’s the instinct. Up the curb on the grass the door comes. Turn down that crappy music immediately, Kent. Swear by our Mother Big-Auto up in Detroit to be thrice faithful to her and to me and to our pure-white-shirt red tie order, and to all of us.
Rise, white shirted red tie short hair in glasses Flamingtown brothers.
Stick on your spectacles! Rise and sell!
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he. Prove: If C is a cycle then the line integral Z C dy xy − 2y is equal to the period of the cycle. Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right. Cirrostratus. Up the curb on the grass the door comes. Altostratus. Up the curb on the grass the door comes Mister Wipeout in the flesh. Large piles of flesh-dump fill raw material bins in the meat factory. Sell, lest you be sold yourselves!
Sell for the love of Selling!
Sell for the love of Big-Auto the great Mother!
Sell!
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t. A basin contains 100 gallons of pure water. At time zero, a saline solution (containing 2 grams of salt per gallon) is introduced to the basin at the rate of 5 gallons per minute. The well-mixed solution is pumped out at the same rate. What is the concentration of salt (in grams per gallon) of the solution in the basin t minutes later? And, it’s right the sign says Math Final. Stratocumulus. Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right the sign says Math Final mister punch-in-the-gut. Cumulonimbus. Hot clouds! Sell!
Sell!
By all that’s big-dawg shirt ass ‘da monkeycut, sell-men!
Sell, sell; yah sell sell right now!
Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t what you want Maalox okay we’ll bring some. Find two solutions to y 0 = p |y|, y(0) = 0. In the general case y 0 = f(y), what aspect of f is related to this failure of uniqueness? Extra credit: Find a 3rd solution. Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right the sign says Math Final mister punch-in-the-gut but there’s ages ages like that Russian scripto-guy said. Nimbostratus. Okay you dragged me all the way down here to watch. So shut up and let’s fucking watch! Madge he put the phone down. Madge he really be all herecomin’! Excitement’s-R-Us this bright moment! Okay Jeff I heard enough call this in. The whiteshirt pushed back the desk the chair and everyplace really spun-turned around to the nibbly fishpair. Quick quick quick they are all up there tight one swat and we’ll have them. Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t what you want Maalox okay we’ll bring some here you go. Be sure to shake well. Write down the Picard iteration for dy/dx = xy2, y(0) = 1. (Calculate first few iterates.) Up the curb on the grass the door comes and it’s right the sign says Math Final mister punch-in-the-gut but there’s ages ages like that Russian scripto-guy said so be cool. Madge this is it. I spoke to the manager. Hey precinct desk pappy, put down the gaslit night news. Swing your feet off the desk sit up pay attention we are really really goin’ in! He’s okayed the deal; congratulations. Jeff led the way across the road. I knew that when we crossed the sill this’d be a live one. Time must have a stop. Baby baby you’re condemned last meal please last meal take shower put on these sharp new duds so what the tags are still on it don’t matter go in there sit until your time comes we’ll let you know if the governor calls but he won’t what you want Maalox okay we’ll bring some here you go okay come on no it’s not possible without the handcuffs. Give example of an equation dx/dt = f(x) for which some solutions are defined for all t and some are not. Thank God I know my fucking clouds or I’d most likely never have the balls to go in but here I am there it is there they are find one sit down the seat pushes up my butt. Close in close in. Penflash. Inklines. Squirrely but still legal. Hold back hold. Need a good bust now—be careful. Where the hell’s our bullhorn? That’s it, all done. Rising and grinning and shaking hands. They’re up; go go go all shouting like it’s some coppy-cop swat-show. Stick on your spectacles! Rise and sell! The pens the paperwork the desks the phones. No it’s not possible come on its time. Find by one step of Euler’s method an approximation to x(.1), where x 0 = x − 3y and y 0 = x + 2y, x(0) = y(0) = 1. But don’t touch yet. No not. No don’t touch. Yet. Because; homospheric types include the ten tropospheric genera and two additional major types above the troposphere—and lastly I do know as the answer to this one that is nonsense. Sell, lest you be sold yourselves! Hands up get down why do you mug? Take delivery next week same day same time. Madge you free? Yah free. Sell for the love of Selling! The edges on top on sides and on bottom all the same are all free. Why do you mug why do you sell? The top edges of the partitions. No it’s not possible without the handcuffs; stop asking just come it’s time. Estimate the rate of temperature decay (explain what is meant by ‘rate’) for large time in a heat-conducting rod of length 4, if the temperature satisfies the heat equation ut = 2uxx, with the boundaries maintained at zero temperature. Are there exceptional solutions with faster decay? The cumulus genus includes three species as defined by vertical size. So I am not so stupid as generally known and felt. Felt that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers. Sell for the love of Big-Auto the great Mother; and for the sake of them plucky-chickens chicken-scratching at the worn down super-seedy flat carpet rug or carpet. See you then Thanks again bye bye carpet or rug version number three; Sell! Yes then carpet or rug version number four; Sell! Jeff carpet or rug version number five. No it’s not possible come it’s time. Find first 5 terms of the power series (about t = 0) of the solution to y 00 + cos(t)y = 1, y(0) = 1, y0 (0) = 2. For what t does this series converge? The butt presses down all is in balance and my God yes—nothing like the smell of a pair of brand new supersharp number two’s. What is the number of three-digit multiples of twenty-nine? Sell! Number six Jeff, Sell! Number Jeff seven, Sell! Jeff eight, Sell! Nine Sell! Ten—aha—good work Jeff. Good bust Jeff. Yeh good Jeff good Jeff. Yes me pat yo’ head yo’ head lil’ Jeff. And we all go home in one piece tonight, stated safe Madge to the greenfaced whiteshirt when they finally left. For the last time; no it is not possible without the handcuffs. If A a is real symmetric 3×3 matrix with eigenvalues −1, −3, −5, and x(t) is a solution to dx/dt = Ax, describe the behavior of x(t) for large t > 0. Together see I know that too I can ace this so bring it on. The pencils feel cold. Sorry, stop asking. Come on keep moving its time. Pity those who never come to life before they die.
Appal(Trad)
"The Last Time"
Linda Hudson Hoagland, Virginia
Linda Hudson Hoagland, Virginia
The sun rose.
He was up,
Hoe in hand,
‘Til sun down.
He worked the land
Ridding the weeds.
Seeds he planted
And watched them grow.
He harvested greens,
Potatoes, and beets,
Corn, green beans, okra,
Them was such good eats!
When the years passed and time
Marched forward, his temples
Grayed, his back hunched over.
His skin thinned from aging.
His sweat and tears on fertile
Soil are ready to join with
His old body to enter
The soil the last time to stay.
He was up,
Hoe in hand,
‘Til sun down.
He worked the land
Ridding the weeds.
Seeds he planted
And watched them grow.
He harvested greens,
Potatoes, and beets,
Corn, green beans, okra,
Them was such good eats!
When the years passed and time
Marched forward, his temples
Grayed, his back hunched over.
His skin thinned from aging.
His sweat and tears on fertile
Soil are ready to join with
His old body to enter
The soil the last time to stay.
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