(Author's note: This poem is so fabulous when the mathematical words are are actual math signs. But FictionPress won't let them show up. So this is the unfabulous version. I'm sorry.)
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An Advanced Equation (Solve for x.)
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x plus y equals z,
If y equals you and x equals me.
Where z stands for love,
A million times and above,
x plus y equals z.
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But what if y equals 0?
Then x, our forlorn little hero,
Cannot equal z all alone,
Without y's number to add to her own,
So y does not equal z.
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What if c joins the equation?
She and y have a relation.
There's too much of a crowd,
Three numbers just aren't allowed
And the equation does not equal z.
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But subtract c from both parts
and I know in my heart,
x and y will still equal z.
z all alone, not divided in three.
Yes, x plus y equals z.
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I've tried to add x plus b.
Tried q and r and 3 times t.
But x is so damn precise.
She won't go for anyone nice.
She'll let only y give her z.
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Now try and solve for this letter,
I'm sure you won't do any better.
Yes, x must be unknown,
For my hard work has shown,
That x without y is merely a letter.
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All I can figure, all I can find,
Is x z but minus that y.
x defined by lack of another.
x equals love— less a lover.
x equals z minus y.
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If I just knew x's number,
And y would show his true colors,
I'd add their souls on line paper,
Keep them right there for forever,
Writing: "x plus y equals z!"
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Think how happy we'd be,
Shouting, "x plus y equals z!"
But no, no more symbols,
No more stupid x-variables,
Just love equals you plus me.