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When calculations give me trouble
Ramanujan comes to me
To offer a solution, pi is 3.

In my hour of consternation,
Lost in marginalia,
Fermat shows me his proof that pi is 3.

Pi is 3, pi is 3,
Pi is 3, pi is 3,
Pythagoras agrees that pi is 3.

Welcome to America, where the cheese is macaronian,
The policy draconian and the science pre-Baconian
When not outright baloneyan.
That's what life is like when you are ruled by a felonian.
Now solve the Hamiltonian.

Banish the illusions and what do you see?

A. Economic lunacy--
B. Political insolvency--
C. Endless mediocrity--
D. The fruit of meritocracy--
E. And an endless pundit spelling bee.

The memes are too much with us. Late and soon,
Scrolling and scrolling, we lay waste the hours.
Little we see on YouTube that is ours.
We have given our arts away for a cartoon.

Everyone who matters (and that means me and you)
Gapes where Trump is dancing the electric bugaboo,
On a stage where no one matters, not even you and me,
Except himself and, now and then, a loyal appointee.

Early on a morning cheery, as I mused on quantum theory,
Reading many strange, mysterious papers over petit-fours—
As I jotted hopeful scrawlings, suddenly I heard a squalling.
“Half a cat is caterwauling in the box there on the floor,
Just a half-existent feline screeching like a pterosaur.
I should open it before....”

In the nation that forgot
Nothing works that worked before;
Policy is scattershot;
No one is from Ecuador;

Donald lying through and through
Has no fault, though woe betide,
And the bridegroom—strange but true—
Never turns into a bride.

If the world should fall out of your brain
And onto your shirt
Well it might not hurt
But then it’s made of dirt
You better rinse it off so it doesn’t stain.

love to read them humans
humans what I love to read
cite they little archives
nibble on they tiny feeds

I looked for a sloe-eyed woman
And found, not eyes of jet,
But eyes of propellers turning
In flight from alleged learning,
As sloe as she can get,
As if she were returning
From being a suffragette.