Squares Series 03

Two Husbands'... Chapter 5 continued

Chapter 5 continued...

2 husbands at work

SMALLY

And them all together

jammed like turtles in a closet?

Oh, no, you haven’t said it all!

No. Let’s go back and back and back into time.

Who thought of numbers?

Egyptians? Cave-people?

Who measured them?

Who measured the planetary suffixes?

(Biggy doesn’t understand. Smally points into space)

People who are looking into the sky,

sure of time; and then, always measuring,

taking the exact length or distance;

and then, chopping increments 

or dents into a log.

BIGGY

Or upon their enemies’ chins!

SMALLY

Using an abacus or a meridian,

comparing distances and just bringing down

all the numbers from the face of “up above” in the sky

(which is maybe sort of a “Lord”

who can unload down upon them

the serious sense of things - with numbers -

with numbers added up, subtracted, mixed and multiplied).

BIGGY

Like what we do with them.

SMALLY

Yes. And all the serious planar magic

is occurring to these ancient people

through a touch of that ‘Lord’, a God:

a very straight God, a straight ahead God

with sense on his mind - sense for them.

BIGGY

So, then they got it, piece by piece,

gradually over the years.

SMALLY

Yes, as certain things one after another,

or consecutively, or making no sense,

just popped into their minds.

Or, somehow, differently, things began to stick

and numbers were made into very many things

ruled over and expanded...

BIGGY

Just as we are doing to them.

2 husbands in New York City

 

SMALLY

Yet (sigh), we are losing control

and the numbers’ mini-powerful increments

are controlling us.

And we, often - as usual, almost - as men,

have hideous fear of failure!

BIGGY

Yet, we have failed.

SMALLY

We did fail - and miserably;

and became unattached to our hearts;

and forgot our original face of ‘up above’

who sailed all about from the beginning

‘amongst the sun and the moon’ free of the numbers.

BIGGY

Free of numbers - yet, always able

to be spitting them out,

down upon us!

SMALLY

Oh, how compacted we have become, Biggy!

slurping up all of the above God’s facts and figures;

preparing a just and hopeful formula for happiness

and success; and then letting others do it for us!

And these men are putting the numbers together

to an unalterable degree toward:

    toppling buildings

    bursting bombs,

    flying high speeds,

    developing gargantuan drugs;

    experimenting, operating  and assuming much more

about the whole expansive mess! while each moment

losing the initial, compassionate reference point

which is the understanding  of their own humble hearts -

with human humility, sacred or religious. I don’t know!  

(He sighs)

Anyway, all numbers toward what?

How can we be handling them?

(Biggy is staring out of the window)

(End of Chapter 5, again)