Mathematics

I fell asleep in my text book
and woke up with
plus signs
dividing the contours of my jawline
and numbers dotting my forehead.
As I reached for my pencil,
formulas, postulates, and theorems
unstuck from my unfurling body
and landed in my heap of unanswered questions:

Why does a universal language
accept erasers and calculators,
but when it comes to international relations,
not consider the numbers?