Today is a very special day.
Today is the day I finished my geometry book.
Yeah! In honor of this festive occasion, I wrote a poem. Rather, an ode. To geometry. (Hence the post title.)
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Ode to Geometry
Math is always useful
At least, that’s what they say
And while numbers are a nice tool
Some things are not meant to stay
Let’s use trig as an example
Lovely stuff; sin, cos, and tan
They sound smart and quite substantial
But what use are they to man?
They just wallow in the corner
They serve no important cause
Yet we all must bear their evil
Or let our schooling forever pause
3D coordinate planes
That’s another major deal
2D is good enough
It almost echoes movies here!
We don’t need another number
We don’t need another line
We don’t need added confusion
x and y alone are fine
However, those two problems
Do nothing to compare
With the horrors known as proofs
I hardly want to venture there
Why can’t we accept
That these theorems are all true?
Why make us, the deprived students
Prove all these things to you?
It must be a torture instrument
Created for our pain
So that we’re utterly confused
And nearly tear out all our brains
So now that I have finished
This treatise of protests
I can make this statement firmly
I can definitely attest
That geometry is torment
It’s a plague unjustified
If you haven’t yet endured it—
I will pray that you survive
But I can say at last
The end is finally here
So goodbye, Saxon Geometry
I won’t see you next year!
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So, in conclusion, thank you, geometry, for making my school year awful. (Well, my school year wasn’t REALLY AWFUL, but the geometry part certainly was.) I’m so glad it’s over.
And now a question for y’all: What is your opinion of math (geometry in particular)? Love it or hate it?
Well, then, I’m off to celebrate. BYE, Y’ALL. SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU.
The Pen and the Sword 
YAAAYYY!!!! CONGRATS! :D
I really, really, love your poem. It is wonderfully fantasnable. :) It really sums (LOL! pun) up my feelings on anything past basic math in general.
YES, IT’S SUCH A SPECTACULAR OCCASION!!!
Why, thank you! (I like your pun :)) Yep, I like algebra, but…that’s about it. I doubt I’ll like any of the advanced math crap I may have to do, either…:( But the POINT IS, geometry is over hallelujah! :D
I adore the way you said, “why can’t we just believe the theorems?” EXACTLY!! That’s my opinon on maths and science experiments and such. :) Actually, some of them aren’t too bad. But still. I’m doing a crash course in decimal review at the moment. It’s very easy, so maths isn’t reverberating my brain into porridge for the time being.
Yeah, I pretty much loathe math at the moment…but it has its redeeming qualities. Like the quadratic equation. I like the quadratic equation. :) And of course the basic stuff is fine, too. :D
It’s not fair! You’re three years behind me, and already finished with geometry, while I’m still working on it when I should have finished last year…ANGER.
ANYHOW…Congrats! And I love your poem. I burst out laughing while reading it.
I’m still not going to apologize. :P Just keep going, just keep going, and you’ll reach the end of the horrible atrocity! :D
Thanks! I like making people laugh.
It’s easy for you to be optimistic since you’re done with the evil subject. ;)
That’s true. But all the same…just keep going!! :P
*sniffles* I have no other choice.