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all students of college algebra will get it. Or atleast empathise.

There is a myth

that needs a slaying

For it has crept into (or been fed intraveneaously)

into every small child, ev’ry babe

A sinister lie, a dastardly deceit–

the myth of logic and order and sense

in numbers.

 

From podiums and pulpits they declaim this heresy

in a thousand books t’is written

But no more I say!

Let the truth be out!

Break the chain link ∞

and refill the negative imaginary integer!

 

You laugh, you scoff, you mathematician–

but I challenge you–

Put pencil to paper and begin to equate

or lineate ones and forties and x’s and z’s

and like a graphite Vesuvius, they erupt

and bleed down the page, staining hands and

Hearts, bringing terror to the masses.

 

Reviews

[SweetPersephone]

lol I like this poem ^^

[Dressed in Poetry]

The last line made me crack up. "Bringing terror to the masses" Absolutely brilliant. I can say with confidence that I have never read a poem about math as good as this one. It takes a great writer to write something like this, I think. Kudos to you.

[Andromeda]

hahah. makes me laugh....i actually kind of like math sometimes, but college algebra was just stupid: i enjoyed skipping it and doing my research paper during it.
you ended up w/ an A in there right?

[Sara]

I myself am a fan of math, but this was a fun poem and I like how unique it is, and the title was very interesting. I had to read the little quotation thing to understand it, obviously, but that was a fun sort of puzzle at first.