Belfast Inequalities by Iggy McGovern
for Master Devlin
Who put the pie in Pythagoras,
who put the bra in algebra
and who was the first to say: Let x
be that unknown quantity in sex?
the answer's in some chromosome
and not the sums you do at home
to win at Spot-The-Ball, for by
the time you get to take away
the number you first started with,
the best lookin' girls in Lower Fifth
are gone and when will you understand
that half a loaf is better than
no bread but round here everyone says:
No Bread Is Better Than Kennedy's!
An Apple a day keeps the hacker away
Baud news travels fast
Better to light one Intel than to cursor the darkness
When the mat’s away the mouse will play
Necessity is the motherboard of invention
Every blog has its day
Fight virus with virus
All that twitters is not scrolled
Let sleeping laptops lie
Beware of geeks bearing gifs
McGovern's most recent poetry collection is A Mystic Dream of Four (Quaternia Press, 2013) -- a collection of sonnets based on the life and times of Irish mathematician and poet William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65). We will sample this volume in a future post.
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