The boy on the third step...

              The   boy   on  the   third  step

The   smart  boy on the third step

Of  the  staircase,   broad   and   safe,

A  place  for  most  to  ruminate,

for  some   for  alms,

 three   is  always   his   favourite,

 plays into the  web of  algorithm

 works   out    algebra,

hawthorns   and    pale     primroses

  dare not    sprawl   before his

mathematical  eye,

bends   and  minds  his business

fully  aware  he cannot solve

humanity’s   hump teen  sorrows,

for  THEY  are stubborn,  thistles ,

a  mild , sudden ,   spooky  sound  before  him,

it  is  the  spoon, with a  shimmer ;

the  spoon , deliberate  or  inadvertent 

he  knows not.

His  eye is his  algorithm.