poem of the day 02.16.15

margin

is a type of financial

collateral to cover a credit risk

it’s the white around the edges of this page

a continental margin

separates ocean crust from continental crust

but don’t quote me on that

because i got straight Cs in science class

in iran

there’s a village called margin

in your right breast there are margins

that we need to get to

this is called a surgical margin

or a tumor free margin

plain free margin

normal skin margin

normal margin

your surgeon calls them good margins

and it’s taken three surgeries to get to them

that’s way different than a gross margin

which is the difference between revenue and cost

before accounting for some other costs

(i looked that one up)

but it might be similar to a machine margin

the distance between

a decision boundary and a data point

quite unlike a gross margin

a profit margin or a contribution margin

or this margin of safety

we’re clinging to in this office

right here and now.

                                                                        09.18.14