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My Heart Beats: Math Math, Math Math
I want to be doing my math homework right now
Shiatsu massage my handy calculator
Pounding away its tense multiplication
Fantasize about the mysterious X
Double-date with his brother Vertex and my sister Radius
Tattoo his intersection point on the nape of my neck
Drive to Infinity Slope in his Rhom-bus and add, subtract,
Multiply, into a family of four,
Negative two and six
Live in a triangle with oval windows on every side
Square-root trees growing in our backyard
Happy parabolas would be graphed to my face because
I was his only coefficient
Together we’d watch our little variables
Grow into equations
Speaking in digits before they even became binomials
Take family photos and send them to the alphabet sisters and the reciprocal family
But even then our planes would not intersect
Parallel or not
They still aren’t perpendicular
And that equation even I can’t solve.
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