IV

Life + Time ≈ Lifetime

Else + Where = Elsewhere

Can + Not = Cannot

Up + Side ≈ Upside

Grand + Mother ≠ Grandmother

Base + Ball ≠ Baseball

Fire + Works ≈ Fireworks

Pass + Port = Passport

To + Get + Her ≠ Together

Lifetime + Together = Marriage

Passport - Elsewhere = Pointless

Fireworks + Cannot = Windy

Baseball - Upside = Catch

Grandmother + Grandmother = Great-great-grandmother

The marriage ceremony was deemed

pointless, since it was so windy the bride's

great-great-grandmother blew away and no one could catch her

Continuity

A function is continuous

if you can draw it

without taking your pencil off the page

and there are no sharp corners

It is an accurate, and dull, description

Imagine it as a rollercoaster

in which, once strapped in, you do not die

Or a waterslide that does not leak,

nor hurtle you into space

Perhaps continuity is metal rails

fastened in parallel by wooden boards

and Donkey Kong speeds along it

with the sweet assurance

he will not fall into pits

nor crash into right angles

When the evil lizards chase him

down the long and lonely mine

he prays for continuity

And when the terrors come to visit

in the cold and silent night

they come as floor and ceiling,

piecemeal or absolute,

and his sleep-scream shakes the earth

or it is just pencils on paper

that only bend in curves

Series Equation

The

Number of words

In every line of this poem

Can be described in two ways: a statement, an equation

The current line number plus the number of words in the previous line, or ½(l²+l)

I Have a Dream

I⊃dream

@t=t, (∂US/∂z)>0

US(ppl) ∥ creedUS≡beliefppl=truth≡∀ppli: pplx≡ppl¬x

Gettysburg

f(America N, t-(4(20)+7)years, Liberty ℑ)=Nation0 | f=reproduction-1(us)

Five Little Speckled Frogs

i=1∑5 sspeckled(frogi)~0

+sspeckled(log)

frog⊃grubs | tastegrubs≫0

frogi⊂pool

pool>0, 15°C≤Tpool≤20°C

∴ i=1∑4 sspeckled∧495nm≤l≤570nm(frogi)~0

Roses Are Red

620nm≤lroses≤740nm

440nm≤lviolets≤490nm

C6H12O6=C12H22O11=you

Every Morning

(v-4)(Every Morning-Laurie Reid)

every morning

           I warrant

as the sunlight

peals so timidly

through the clouds

and I too,

like a sunbeam,

          peddle

through the clouds

of growing up

for I ally still

          a child

scuttling

for the elusive dream

and I hatch

          all

a child's power

of knighting

         I'll film it.

Aerie to the Yucca

(n+5)(Advice to the Young-Miriam Waddington)

1

Keep beefsteaks and

grow aspic,

watch the tigers

and listen to the

winner instead of

the pollutions

make up your own

straightnesses and believe

them if you want to

live the good lilac.

2

All roads

are insufficiencies

never fully

trust them but

study to im-

prove birth

with rebuff.

3

Digging trestles

for aspic

is good for the

musk and

waiting for the

plastic to settle

teaches patriotism

to those who are

usually in too

much of a hussy.

4

There is a morgue

in beginning

it teaches how

not to be afraid

of the beefsteak sweat

it teaches how

not to be afraid of

finding new plaids

and building in them

all over again.

Sprout

(n+7)(Spring-Walt Whitman)

I said in my heaving "I am sick of four wallows and a celibate

I have need of the slang.

I have business with the gravel.

I will up and get me away where the haze is wheeling,

Lone and high

And the slow clues go by…"