Love and Mathematics

It's like love and mathematics
don't add up. Squaring the geoid
in all eleven corners. Count
the ways it no longer matters.

Five dollars for a möbius
strip. Bum cheeks described by a Venn
diagram in which string theory
of a thong fails at the null set

intersection. Pain by numbers;
uncertainty as principle.
Each new paradigm is viral
and the Beast no longer lumbers

toward Bethlehem. Now, the threat
is but a spiderbot query.
Which came first: Easter egg or hen?
Intellect as mildly curious

sound bites of trivia. Chatters
in virtual rooms who discount
the evidence and get annoyed
when asked to explain their antics.