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+% poetry, music and typesetting
+%
+% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB8_2Yuj8Og
+%
+% Published on Nov 1, 2016
+% Taken from 'Poetry versus Orchestra'. Album by Hollie McNish and Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jules Buckley.
+% Released on MO Black, fall 2016.
+% www.mo.nl/poetry • www.holliepoetry.com
+%
+% Poem written by Hollie McNish, music by Jules Buckley
+% Artwork by me studio, Martin Pyper
+%
+MATHEMATICS
+
+he said
+“those goddamn pakistanis and their goddamn corner shops
+built a shop on every corner, took our british workers jobs”
+he said
+“those goddamn chinese and their goddamn china shops”
+i told him they’re from vietnam, but he didn’t give a toss
+i ask him what was there before that “damn japan man’s shop?”
+he looks at me and dreams a scene of british workers’ jobs
+of full-time, full-employment before the “goddamn boats all came”
+where everybody went to work for full-time full-hours every day
+“a british business stood their first”
+he claims
+“before the irish came
+now british people lost their jobs and bloody turkish they're to blame”
+i ask him how he knows that fact, he says, “because it’s true”
+i ask him how he knows it’s fact, he says, he read it in the news,
+“every time a somali comes here they take a job from us
+the mathematics one for one, from us to them, it just adds up.”
+he bites his cake, he sips his brew, he says again he knows the plot
+“the goddamn caribbean’s came and now good folk here don’t have jobs”
+i ask him what was there before the “goddamn persian curtain shop”
+i show him architectures’ plans
+of empty goddamn plots of land
+I show him the historic maps
+a bit of sand
+a barren land
+there was no goddamn shop before that pakistani came and planned
+man - i am sick of crappy mathematics
+cos i love a bit of sums
+i spent years into economics
+and i geek out over calculus
+and when i meet these paper claims
+that one of every new that came
+takes away ‘our’ daily wage
+i desperately want to scream
+“your math is stuck-in primary”
+cos some who come here also spend
+and some who come here also lend
+and some who come here also tend
+to set up work which employs them
+and all thosebalance sheets and trends
+they work with numbers, not with men
+and all this goddamn heated talk
+ignores the trade the polish brought
+ignores the men they give work to
+not plumbing jobs but further too
+ignores the guys they buy stock from
+accountants, builders, on and on
+and i know it’s nice to have someone
+to blame our lack of jobs upon
+but immigration’s not that plain
+despite the sums inside our brains
+as one for one
+as him for you
+as if he goes ‘home’, they’d employ you
+cos sometimes one that comes makes two
+and sometimes one can add three more
+and sometimes two times two is much, much more than four
+and most times immigrants bring more than minuses.