Zero is Greater Than Nothing (poem) by Jeff Brown on AuthorsDen

Zero is Greater Than Nothing
by Jeff Brown → (All Poetry by Jeff Brown)
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Are you a hero like zero?
Zero is an arithmetic hero, Superman, Captain Fantastic, Mr. Numerical rolled into one. Zorro only a phoneme away and look how the people loved him! Billion, trillion, zillion are muscular abstractions, movie stars in LA. Nothing brings you back to earth, to humble mirth like zero. But zero is much greater than nothing. Before it 1 through 9 existed for hundreds of years. Did they get as far? Are they so complete? 9 and 6 drew close to its symmetry, but grew tired, turned in at the belly and gave themselves tails, that like a tadpole or monkey. Is that so evolved? And 8's not so great, it tried twice to relate to zero's symmetrical singularity and failed. Numbers were useless without zero, only employed to keep track of chickens and debts. And what rhymes for 1 through 9 like hero? He who keeps 603 from being 540 less. My paycheck re-soundly thanks you, zero. Zero, everything but stupid, planned its appearance with cunning and calm. Avoided Europe for hundreds of years. The marketing strategy paying off big. Overnight arithmetic went from counting beans to the Queen of Math. Zero staked its claim, became gatekeeper to positive and negative, took on biblical proportions as the origin of coordinate systems, genesis to gardens of graphs, completed algebra, enabled calculus to breathe. Without it engineering, technological feats forever-trapped inside dreams. No Empire State, computer, relativity, quantum leap. No Apollo, SS Enterprise, pocket protector geeks. So, next time someone calls you a zero. Take a moment to think of all that it means.

Reviewed by Stephen McKelvie (Reader)

Reviewed on February 26, 2008

Great work i suppose you get a 0 out of 10 then ????

Keep it up, I a counting on you for inspiration.

Thanks
S

Reviewed by Andre Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed on February 23, 2008

This is a great philosophical analysis of the round number. It also leaves a flash of cognition that supports the building of will power. This "Zero is Greater Than Nothing" has delivered a great message.

I thank the author for sharing this magnificent composition.

In gratitude and admiration,

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya

Reviewed on January 26, 2008

You are very talented....This goes into my library....I want my bros and sis to read this exceptional work...Thanks...love n luck...BHUWAN!!!

Reviewed by Phyllis Jean Green

Reviewed on January 25, 2008

Very clever!! :) Sound suspiciously like a genius. Math whiz, I'm not, but my father was. Built a business without once using a calculator. Ah, well. Couldn'a written a poem if his life depended on it. You, on the other hand, are makin' me look bad. Cut it out!
Just kidding. Nice work!! 'N. Awe.' :)

Reviewed by Larry Lounsbury

That was so good-(zero) the seed of the beginning- Pharaoh- Hero-enjoyed