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The Mathematician

February 17, 2019
By Marysia PLATINUM, Halifax, Virginia
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"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
-Victor Hugo

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With every step she takes a calculation

And though she hears their whispers

That she always plays alone

She knows better

Her toys are algebra and geometry and calculus

And her playmates Euclid and Pythagoras

In her notebook she sketches

Digits and variables and symbols and wordless sentences

The fruits of what many consider toil

Are but artwork to her

© Karen S., Norwalk, CT

The author's comments:

Thought of this doing math homework...funny how we get inspiration from the strangest places

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