Dave's High School Poetry - 1975

 

Plain Geometry?

Another Triangle exits.
It is not as the many famous.
It has the usual characteristics.
One angle shall always be acute.
One angle is right.
The other will receive abuse.
Which is which?

02/09/75

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What a wonderful poem, and my first exercise at free-form verse.

The wordplay is delightful, bemoaning my poor fate as the third wheel, the victim of unrequited love. Of course, I would use geometry as my metaphore for love (straight A's in math). And its fun to play with the words "cute" and "obtuse". Here is a young guy shaking out and exercising a new portion of his brain. I enjoy this kind of wordplay to this day, and often include it in my current writing.




Originally Written: 1975
Original Web Upload: December 2000
Last Update: April 29, 2001