I am Googol

I am Googol
the goggle-eyed One,
leader of 100 zeros.

So gather your army
of trillions and quintillions.
I will outnumber their atoms.
For when I Googol
multiply myself
googol by googol,
let all the minds of East and West
be prepared to be googolplexed.

Copyright: from Einstein The Girl Who Hated Maths (Hodder Children’s, 2002/2013), © John Agard 2002, used by permission of the author and publisher

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