The square <br />on the hypotenuse <br /> <br />went to the high school <br />Disco. <br /> <br />Math & the Mathematics <br />were playing their new number. <br /> <br />Oh sure, sure <br />other squares were there <br /> <br />but they hung on to the walls <br />like wallflowers. <br /> <br />The circles <br />were already drunk <br /> <br />and one lonely rectangle <br />stood stoned & dancing alone. <br /> <br />Nothing now but a tangle <br />of lines and sharp edges. <br /> <br />A gaggle of isosceles <br />triangles giggled in a group. <br /> <br />An acute angle <br />was doing a line <br /> <br />of coke with <br />and obese obtuse obscene angle. <br /> <br /> <br />'What the hell does she see in him? ' <br />muttered a Ninety degree angle. <br /> <br />Suddenly across an 'Oh mi Gawd! ' <br />crowded room <br /> <br />he 'Holy Moley! ' saw her. <br /> <br />'Man just look at the sum of her <br />squares on her other two sides! ' <br /> <br />'Holy Guacamole...she was made for me! ' <br /> <br /> <br />She was fit and by God did <br />she know it.. <br /> <br />'Is that a Pythagoras in your pocket <br />or are you just Q.E.D.'d to see me! ' <br /> <br />'Holy Euclid! <br />he swore. <br /> <br />They both <br />couldn't wait no more. <br /> <br /> <br />They jumped into <br />a geometry book <br /> <br />and made tracks <br />to his bachelor pad. <br /> <br />Math & the Mathematics <br />were doing a Sparks cover. <br /> <br />'It's No.1 <br />all over Heaven! ' <br /> <br />''The No.1 song <br />all over Heaven! '<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-1-song-new-year-poem-for-onelia/
