Never could draw a straight line
or find pattern in design.
Thought all proportion
a percentile fluke,
life’s circumference
got me spooked.
When others zagged,
I squirmed and juked,
but when our opposite
auras combined,
all of life’s irregular shapes
aligned–
soul symmetry defined.
© khartless 2021, All Rights Reserved
Written to prompt at dVerse Poets Quadrille #131: 44 words including the word ‘juke’,
Hannah Fry author of The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation shares the odds of finding your soul mate and compares how game theory reveals the best strategy for picking up a stranger in a bar. Fry even shares an equation that explains the conversation patterns of lasting relationships. She attempts to decode the complex dynamics of romance and expose the breathtaking beauty of math itself.
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