7670 <br />A number very much towards the thin end of infinity: <br />Three times the number of Tesco stores <br />But only a third of McDonald's; <br />The number of years needed to take us back to the dawn of recorded time - <br />Well past the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Maya and the Pyramids <br />To the very first 'modern' human settlements, <br />To the beginning of the end of transhumance, <br />To Sumer and signs and shapes in clay <br />That would be buried then uncovered & decoded in our day. <br /> <br />7670 <br />Someone's PIN number, <br />Tapped-in times daily like a crazy magic, <br />Translating digits into all kinds of currency: <br />Food, clothes, cars and iTunes downloads – <br />A sort of key to the Door of Infinite Variety... <br />Provided the software sentinel guarding the gateway <br />Gives you leave to enter, <br />Else you'll be locked out of your personal Eden <br />Like Adam and Eve after that Tree of Knowledge apple. <br /> <br />7670 <br />A product number for a Star Wars 'Hailfire Droid' Lego construction kit; <br />The Paris postal address of a Chambre d'Hôte <br />Beside the famous Père Lachaise cemetery <br />Where serious types like Balzac, de Lesseps, Molière & Champollion, <br />Rub cold shoulders with the likes of Marcel Marceau, Oscar Wilde & Jim Morrison; <br />A Gas Cloud in Pisces, recorded and catalogued - <br />23: 27.2 (hours: minutes) : Ascension, <br />-00: 11 (degrees: minutes) Declination. <br /> <br />7670 <br />The grand sum of the days of twenty-one years <br />[Duly calibrated for the 5-odd February 29ths]: <br />The time you've been 'Grace', my daughter, <br />[Though I had been wishing you into being from far earlier, <br />I so wanted to see you, hold you and talk with you]. <br />It's been a privilege to watch you grow into yourself, your prime <br />And I hope, at 21, the life of your time.<br /><br />Tony Jolley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/7670/
