This 15 word poem suggests that the reader count the words of the poem. Since every line has half as many words as the previous line, and since the poem urges the reader to keep counting forever, one imagines a total of 16 words

McQuillan, Dan

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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 
Volume 7 | Issue 1 January 2017 
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Dan McQuillan 
Norwich University 
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McQuillan, D. "16," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 7 Issue 1 (January 2017), pages 291-291. 
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Dan McQuillan
dmcquill@norwich.edu
How does one consider half of a word?
I don’t know, but
keep counting,
forever
...
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Vol 7, No 1, January 2017


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