The Care Demanded of the Data

The reason a human
Doesn’t like being seen
As a number is down

To what other humans
Can do to each other
With numbers, as numbers.

A human can never
Wholly trust another
To be careful of them.

In some sense, every one
Is both less and more than
One of any being,

Less fixed than the number,
Less stable, enduring.
A human’s transient.

Any number pretends
It isn’t. Be careful
With your experiment.