The NUNDERS [ We'll Count ]

The NUNDERS:

We'll count like we never counted before

(A Performance Poem)

Hi -Yer maths and nunder numbers!
Nunder numbers, nunder numbers Lo!
I'm sick of numbers being so uniform
Unicorn, luniform, uniform, cuneiform
I'm sick of numbers being the same.

Why can't two plus too be three ?
El-Heaven be four plus seven?
Three-score be sixty one bar one?
And Ten equal to then - less a haitch?

I need to be added on a different scale
I want to count like one in ten.

Let Math-matics mind the attic
Toss Arith-matic in the skip
Sweet Algebra won't multiply
In a jot of just half a tittle.

Give us an ump
for the enth degree
At the piffleteenth hour
in umpteenth time
A skip or two till
eleventy's done to nothing.
Add up some-ones,
multiply ate by hungry
till the count is
a poofteenth zillion in mind
Take away a
tiddle you first thought of
See!
You've got the Nunders of number!

NUNDERS!

(here you hold up both hands with the fingers spread and count in the gaps)

"Wel. Ump. Der. Ruh. Mm. Yer. Beh. En. Ah. Yuno."

All the gaps between the digits on each hand
Are nunders, like impedediments in s.s.sp.speech.

Not numberdread! We need nunders.
Numberdread, numberdread, hunderdread
Numb-dread, Hun-dread,
Numberdread isn't funny!
Humero, numero, numerophobia can be fixed!

I'm sick of numbers being
so so uniform
I'm uncounted in numberosis,
Oh Oh bummertosis
Fancy being scared of the Huns !
Won Hun Dread! Too Hun Dread! Three Hun Dread!
Counting, calculating till None Hun Dread and None
Because! All the Huns are dead with one
Single grain of 'Thou' sand !

Ebbtimer, ebbtimer, oo, oo, oo,
Ebbtimer, ebbtimer, oo, oo, oo!

Ebbtimer, ebbtimer oo, oo, oo.
Ebbtimer ebbtimer oo, oo, oo.
The nunders, the nunders,
the nunders in be tween:

( here you hold up both hands with fingers spread and count in the gaps)

Weltween, Umbtween, Dertween, Ruhtween, Mmtween,
Yertween, Behtween, Entween. Ahtween, Yuno-tween."

Between One and infinity there's lot nots of numbers
Tween one and affinity there's numbers at sea;
Tween one and infinity there's numbers like fishes
With fins to infinity free.

With fins to infinity free, me dear, me dare,
Me near, me there, with fins to finity free.
Tween One and affinity there's lot knots of numbers
To finish at finity free,

Affinity free ? Affinity free !
Fishing the finishing numbers to nought.
We'll finish at finity free, my dear
With the big one ( ) “THE BIG ONE ”

We'll throw back the tads
Get rid of the smidgeons
We'll fish at finity free, my dear
With the big one " Affinity" caught.

One der of wonders between all the numbers
We'll count like we never counted before:

( here you hold up both hands with fingers spread and count in the gaps)

"WEL, UMB, DER, RUH, MM, YER, BEH, EN, AH, YUNO."


August 1993 © Wayne David Knoll
Fusion Arts Colony ‘'The Mansions'‘ Malmsbury Victoria