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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/mcnish.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/mcnish.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ab09ca0bcaf --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/mcnish.tex @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +% 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. |