Even Though
A = pi r squared
even if a body
continues to fall
32 feet per second per second
which I hope
it will continue to do
nevertheless
after careful calculation
and by the grace of algebra
I am persuaded that
if truth is a number
not only is it never
in the back of the book
but it never comes out even
ends in a fraction
cannot be rounded off.
Approximation
was the first art.
It is the only science.
by John Stone
from In All This Rain
Louisiana State University Press, 1980
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