Okay, poets, we get it: things are like other things
…… —A. R. & M. G.
Ah, But Math is Like That Too
When poets are so dissed
by engineers and physicists
they really should consider this:
(4+2) is just like 6
and keeping that in mind
81’s like the square of 9
and in case you think these
are a poet's tricks,
√36 is too like 6
(in this, poetry’s like
arithmetic).
In fact, when quantities and things align
like is like an equal sign
and, what’s more,
(4×4) is 16’s metafour
.
Jim Culleny
10/28/16