Day 28:

July 28-A Palindrome is written the same forward and backward.

Since this is poem number, 11, 311, a palindrome seems in order. You may ask how it is possible to write so many poems. You may ask. Ok, let’s do some math. Suppose you had 100 friends. You write them a birthday poem for 10 years. That is 1,000 poems. But let’s not forget family members. Let’s make that number another 100. That’s 2,000. But wait. What about other landmark events in a person’s life, such as weddings, anniversaries, births, illness, and the like? Add another 2,000, which makes it 4,000. But wait. What about holidays? That makes the numbers reach 10,000., especially when including obscure ones like Bosses Day and Sweetest Day. But you don’t want to just write any poem. There are hundreds of forms used throughout the world, and when practicing all those forms, 11,000 doesn’t seem like such a huge number after all. For my part, I’ve written poems for over three decades, and the number of friends and family exceed the 200 ascribed for the demonstration.

Now, future palindromes may sound better than this. Give it a try.

1 1 3 1 1

Madam, I’m Adam

1 1 2 1 1

Ten a net

1 1 1 1 1

Top a pot

10101

Bob a bob

1 000 1

Huh?