"A Grin Without A Cat"

Kurt Philip Behm

Zero to the thousandth power

logic on the run

Oblongata left in pieces

nothing zero-sum

 

Squaring the root unto itself

Euclid at the cliff

A equals B as B disappears

the quotient nondescript

 

Hickory Dickory’s mouse on the run

though nimble Jack gets burned

Formulas crumbling as integers balk

what’s ‘given’ mocked and spurned

 

Zero to the thousandth power

reason clones its fear

Classical thought —not selling or bought

Pythagorean tears

 

(36th & Chestnut Sts: September, 2023)

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: September 9th, 2023 10:57
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  • Bobby O

    A freaking clever and great math poem w action and axiomatic plot turns. Who knew the geometric given could be caught and burned but their freakin integer backup balked like a teamster striking for longer lunches and Euclidean has to hope that logic thrives after their sage finishes sight seeing at best or leaping from cliffs with a diagonally structured mirrored w balanced meridian thriving as axis of symmetry and it’s enough to reduce or even deliver the genius to a strategic tangent on the oblong elipse , it power base low a furious thrusted in action by the lever of Atlas made from the elliptical chord thickened with confidence and positive Apex and the tragedy averted and that chord had a secret and we all heard Hallelujah as if L Cohen time traveled. And the ale was warm.

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Bobby: ...I like your commenting better than my Poem.

    Thanks so much. It's great when someone gets it !



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