and in the darkness bind them
this i vow. i believe in the power of symbolic-objects-carefully-defined. in the power of “math”, in other words. and the holiest-of-all-math-holies i swear i will keep most sacred.
oh, equal sign! great in perfection!
none are like thee in the power to reveal!
no not “continuity” nor “magnitude”…
nor even “quantity”… nay, *nothingness*!…
not even “infinity”…
how are we to speak
how are we to write
how are we to think…
& who’ll understand *any* parable
that won’t understand that there
even *are* any parables…
it depends what the meaning of “is” is.
and the meaning of “is”, is, dammit, “is”.
otherwise, fuck it. what is *wrong*
with these undergraduates? happy christmas.
or whatever.
and a very new year.
the livingston review 
January 2, 2013 at 3:31 pm
I like this. I’ll be co-hosting a math poetry reading at the Joint Mathematics Meetings next Friday. I think it’s only folks reading their own stuff, though.
January 3, 2013 at 10:39 pm
wow cool.
“math poetry” deserves a far
wider audience than that
of which you speak.
i went to two MAA/AMS
joint meetings (officially;
once they had ’em so close
to where i was by accident
[washington DC] that i went
ahead and snuck in [and had a blast]):
specifically, i (1) presented on my thesis
and (2) read this
https://vlorbik.wordpress.com/some-contradictions-of-education-reform/
collection of unremarkable remarks
(& met saunders mac lane which was
more or less the whole point).
.
& you’ve already read my favorites
(“a question both deep and profound”, e.g.)
.
so i’ll just refer you (again) to my own
little contribution of a few years back:
http://calciii.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/mtp/
.
break a leg (or what have you). love, V.