• the first.
  • the highest quality.
  • the greatest concern.
  • the first worship service.

(but in mathematics)

  • natural numbers
    divisible only by themselves and the solitary one.

Euclid described them.
Eratosthenes sieved them.
Riemann hypothesised them.
Rivest, Shamir and Adleman encrypted them
(after a night of wine and wisdom).
Sagan used them to talk to aliens.
Woltman dreamed of finding the largest one.

They are infinite and stubborn.
And like the steak,
the bigger they are, the rarer they are.

Prime
numbers.

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PAD 11

Prompt: Write a prime number poem.

(One quarter of the first 100 numbers are prime.
They are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89 and 97.)