Two four-letter words that I want NEVER to be used TOGETHER are hate and math. A lively contradiction to my wish is provided by the following piece by slam poet Shappy Seasholtz.
scroll down to the bottom of this posting.)
21 Reasons Why I Hate Math by Shappy Seasholtz
1 - It's my worst subject.
2 - I failed Algebra in high school.
3 - When I retook Algebra in high school during the final exam the principal announced that the space shuttle had just blown up.
4 - The space shuttle probably blew up because of a mathematical error.
Sometimes good lines fit so well into their poems that their individual merits go unrecognized. And then, taken out of context, they can lead lives of their own. Here is a start for a collection of such lines.
From Poets.org here are two lines from "Ceriserie" by Joshua Clover:
Mathematics: Everyone rolling dice and flinging Fibonacci, going to the opera, counting everything.
Fire: The number between four and five.
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