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• Nobody ever wrote a law saying a triangle
• Would take responsibility for all patterns
• In nature. All coefficients are equal
• Sloping into that sleepy pool of lines
• Forming strings between armies of numbers
• Whose connections are impossible to explain
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• Otherwise. There can be no explanation
• For a globe to be congruent to a triangle;
• The complete population of numbers
• Goaded into forming a pattern
• Standing in their orderly lines
• To express their binomial equality..
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• But, no! These numbers expand equally
• Becoming a microcosm of life, explaining
• Divine mysteries as a system of lines
• That converge on simplicity, the triangle
• Top, a point where all nonsense patterns
• Correspond to the environmental numbers.
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• Our mathematical universe: every person a number
• Infinitely different, yet all created equal
• God was a mathematician; the intricate patterns
• Defy natural logic. The only explanation
• States that creation expanded from a triangle
• Of divine division; no reasons exist for lines
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• Like these. Twos and threes, standing in lines
• An army of power; obediently trained numbers
• Marching out in their celebrated triangle
• Formation. Voices order polynomial equality
• Else taken by force; without cause or explanation
• Just assured knowledge that a universe without patterns
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• Cannot survive. Numbers embrace a pattern:
• Humans too, which is why we draw these lines
• And follow mindlessly, never trying to explain
• How we are ruled by the endlessness of numbers
• Driven to infinity, where everybody is equal
• Instead of forced into society's hierarchal triangle..
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• No, don't try to explain. We all love these patterns:
• Lemmings in their lines, impaling themselves on triangles.
• We all want to be equal. There is safety in numbers.
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• Deanna Rubin 1996

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