we are all statistics
‘we are all statistics’
noted the statistician
as he stood on the beach
explaining
to the gathered children
that his cells
would stretch to the sun and back
61 times
and his
10 pints of blood
would be enough
to feed a
100 colony of vampire bats
for
20 days
and his
32 teeth
if made into an axe
would be able to chop through
13 feet of silver birch wood
before they broke
and he would
of course
have been able to work out
the chances of becoming
the first
collector and interpreter of numerical data
to be killed
by a suicidal seagull
if only
he had known.
‘we are all statistics’
noted the statistician
as he stood on the beach
explaining
to the gathered children
that his cells
would stretch to the sun and back
61 times
and his
10 pints of blood
would be enough
to feed a
100 colony of vampire bats
for
20 days
and his
32 teeth
if made into an axe
would be able to chop through
13 feet of silver birch wood
before they broke
and he would
of course
have been able to work out
the chances of becoming
the first
collector and interpreter of numerical data
to be killed
by a suicidal seagull
if only
he had known.