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Carl Sandburg - ArithmeticCarl Sandburg - Arithmetic
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your    head. Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win if you know how    many you had before you lost or won. Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven or five    six bundle of sticks. Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand    to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and    you can look out of the window and see the blue sky or the    answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again    and see how it comes out this time. If you take a number and double it and double it again and then    double it a few more times, the number gets bigger and bigger    and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you    what the number is when you decide to quit doubling. Arithmetic is where you have to multiply and you carry the    multiplication table in your head and hope you won`t lose it. If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you    eat one and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats the    other, how many animal crackers will you have if somebody    offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say    Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix? If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she    gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is    better in arithmetic, you or your mother?
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