“In any equation, the whole is greater than the sun of the parts.” ~ Aristotle

As can be seen in the image at page bottom, indicating both time of day and full Network connection, after several days of perfectly normal functioning the poet’s device is once again under attack by hackers.

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Recorded Reading (1:42): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uacigri6f3k4rgkqbi5ni/The-Sun-is-More-Than-its-Parts.mp3?rlkey=bq00ioa91700k1kwotwcy30k4&st=i0pux9q8&dl=0

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The Sum is More Than Its Parts

The price to pay for faking it
Is not to know how you might feel
The price to pay for lying
Is not to tell real from unreal

The price for cheating someone
Is to cheated be yourself
The price for purchase friendship of
Is to be put upon a shelf,

The moment that your usefulness
To someone else is done;
Making others fearful feel
Will teach you how to run

The price for stealing is to lose
Much that you might own
As someone who leaves other ones’
Possessions well alone

The price to pay for giving in
To inapprop’riate lust
Is just to stand and have to watch
When part from you they must

Tis by your own beliefs must be
That you companions find
And by their own beliefs they will
Unpleasantly remind

The individual who feels the need
To be unfair his brother to
In order that himself he
Have some happiness in view

That if the two of them, in time,
Worked together as a team
What sunshine of abundance
Upon them both would gleam!

This is of the yet arcane
But necessary future arts:
In any equation, the sum
Comes to much more than its mere parts

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