All numerals are complex,
Even ( or odd ) the given set
First counted :   { fingers and toes },

The fabled bits wiped by zero,
That singly creates the wholes
From the naturals nested,

[ all of these labels mounting ]
Integers periodic
When the number line unrolls

For fractional rationals or
Implacable irrationals,
Real in a complete ordered field .

Imagining despite descartes
Circles back round to the start .

*[ WSB ]_.