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English, 12.03.2021 22:30, me1233456

Who is the speaker of the poem "Numbers" by Mary Cornish? Speaker is the voice of the piece. (Speaker is not always the poet)

Poem:
I like the generosity of numbers.
The way, for example,
they are willing to count
anything or anyone:
two pickles, one door to the room,
eight dancers dressed as swans.

I like the domesticity of additionā€”
add two cups of milk and stirā€”
the sense of plenty: six plums
on the ground, three more
falling from the tree.

And multiplicationā€™s school
of fish times fish,
whose silver bodies breed
beneath the shadow
of a boat.

Even subtraction is never loss,
just addition somewhere else:
five sparrows take away two,
the two in someone elseā€™s
garden now.

Thereā€™s an amplitude to long division,
as it opens Chinese take-out
box by paper box,
inside every folded cookie
a new fortune.

And I never fail to be surprised
by the gift of an odd remainder,
footloose at the end:
forty-seven divided by eleven equals four,
with three remaining.

Three boys beyond their motherā€™s call,
two Italians off to the sea,
one sock that isnā€™t anywhere you look.

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