In the United States, April is both National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month. Visits to the links in the preceding sentence will offer lots of information about these monthly celebrations (as will exploring this blog). AND, below I offer a poetic celebration of mathematics.
American poet Harry Mathews (1950-2017) was a member of OULIPO and divided his time between New York and Paris; much of his work moved outside the restrictions of traditional poetic forms.
Here are the opening lines of his poem, "Safety in Numbers":
from Safety in Numbers by Harry Mathews
The enthusiasm with which I repeatedly declare you my one
And only confirms the fact that we are indeed two,
Not one; nor can anything we do ever let us feel three
(And this is no lisp-like alteration: it's four
That's a crowd, not a trinity), and our five
Fingers and toes multiplied leave us at six-
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