MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Kate MacQueen: Solving for the retired brain problem

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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature

Issue 26:	1 Jan. 2025
Micro-Poem:	43 words

By Kate MacQueen

Solving for the retired brain problem

The numbers are unchanged: 
the minutes in an hour, hours in a day, 
days in a week or a month, and still  
the math is different 


					algebra 
				at 
			good 
		really 
	being 
like 


then 


	everything 
suddenly 
		is calculus

Bio: Kate MacQueen

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