math

twisting Time
through spherical objects
was never much of a bother
except when you were in an Algebra class
staring at a filthy government-run clock
that counted the numbers
you were supposed to idly be placing
in lieu of letters.

Geometry
taught nothing of shapes
but all of those triangles and circles
that nobody cared to look at through
a sextant lens of Beauty,
all those wasted scratchings
trying to determine
length width and heighth
for god knows.

Trigonometry
was about Lighthouses
and how tall they were
when used with functions
that had to be looked up anyway
like half of the answers could always be
in the textbooks themselves
but the real bother was
standing outside of class
while the teacher held a string
and we were supposed to gather its length
for the purpose
of gathering the length of a string
without being able to measure it
but by being to measure every other goddamned thing?

Math, math, no mention of Time
which seems like
a hideous addition
if you can imagine what
those government monstrosities
where and weren't doing
when you sat there stuffed into a desk
having to listen to them yammer on
about special books
that were licensed by the schoolboard
only to steal your entire fucking youth
with worthless shit
that now you fail to remember
unless you were an afficinado
of FOIL and not the graphing calculator
they made us buy for only one hundred dollars
that had games about selling drugs on it
and other such novelties.