I'm tired of being a zero vector . ..

there are more       to figures       than ever meets       the eye

     Inexhaustible GOOGLE has led me to a website "The Best Philippine Short Stories" which contains not only stories but also artwork and poems.  Eileen Tupaz, now a central character in Quezon City's White Space Wellness Studio, has given me permission to include samples of her math poems first published by BPSS -- poems written in 2000 when she was a student at Ateneo de Manila University.

Poems by Eileen Tupaz

     soulmates
  
     we are all of us
     nonsingular creatures
     whose identities
     must be affirmed
     before our inverses
     can be found   

          i'm tired of being a zero vector

          i'm tired of being a zero vector
          with no direction
           no dimension
           and no magnitude;
             what i need is another element
                       - but that would be
                 a contradiction
           of my definition

     conformity

     why must life
     be a diagonal matrix
     where every other path
     that deviates from the main
     is an unacceptable
            - zero

Here is a link to the authors featured in The Best Philippine Short Stories -- and this author-list includes links to "Five Math Poems" and "More Math Poems" by Eileen Tupaz from which the selections above were selected.