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f(x)

Life:
   a continuous function,
   without limits,
   or asymptotes.

   an integrable function,
   the virtuous area above the axis;
   the malicious below.

   an oscillating function,
   with elated maxims,
   and depressed minims.

   an implicit function,
   with an inverse curve,
   and their common point — death.

Life:
   a continuous function,
   that after its intersection,
   deviates beyond the Cartesian plane.


Middlebury, Vermont
1991

This is another poem written at the New England Young Writers Conference at the Bread Loaf Campus. This poem is an example of what can happen when a philosophical teenage poet is a little too excited about calculus.

Posted by geoff at April 28, 2004 08:22 PM