......The ancient geometers saw in the circle an abstract ideal:
It was a match made in Hell.
......The circle, figure of perfect symmetry,
She was fat and smelled rubbery
......every diameter perfectly equal;
like a child's multi-colored bouncing-ball.
......the sphere, even more so--
Her eyes were pale round O's
......infinitely axially symmetric: paradigm of heavenly perfection.
She wore round beads of pearlish imitation;
......Aristotle holds the globe aloft, contemplating
put them in her mouth, disgusting
......the mysteries of pi,
the little boy
......disturbed. The fractions don't converge.
who left his breakfast at the curb.
......Nature doesn't love the circle, nor the indeviate
Ringlets and curls,
......sphere, preferring the oblate, the prolate, and the ovate,
dimpled knees, and chubby legs
......as in planets and eggs.
of little girls elongate
......as pi goes on and on in unrepeating sequences,
in womanly metamorphoses
.
......and worlds and moons orbit in ellipses,
......slowly precessing.