The text of a "piem" by Mike Keith, who has re-imagined Poe's "The Raven" so that it pays homage to the digits of pi.
14/ See what Mike Keith is doing here? Pretty clever! :) #PiDay #piems (see: cadaeic.net/cadenza.htm)
13/ @uoft.bsky.social statistician Jeffrey Rosenthal (@jeffski.bsky.social) has a nice collection of "piems" here:
probability.ca/jeff/writing..., while Mike Keith has some amazing (& long!) ones, here: cadaeic.net/cadenza.htm #PiDay #piems
![This is an image of text, a poem by the poster, Tad Garish, entitled "Untitled." The author is unsure how well this will work in translation to speech. There are extreme indentations of the 3rd and 4th lines. Anybody, ut reads:
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Tell me the last act you would tolerate.
No worry; I'll answer in kind (rake the old
doilies off the
useless tables)
I've tolerated a cut to the spine.
Amphibrachy of the lifetime, chronic and
Semi-salvageable. No scalpel
To my gory core--merely a rain of pharmacology
[End poem].
This has been a Garish Media hue and cry. The media is omnipresent, and so are we
[End life-altering announcement].
[Begin purpling].
It's a secret to everybody!
If you have noticed or listened to any of my ALT-texts before, will you please reply to this skeeeeeeet with something on the subject of food? I'm curious how many of you there are.
Many thanks!
[End purpling].
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This is an image of text, a poem by the poster, Tad Garish, entitled "Untitled." The author is unsure how well this will work in translation to speech. There are extreme indentations of the 3rd and 4th lines. Anybody, ut reads: Untitled ----- Tell me the last act you would tolerate. No worry; I'll answer in kind (rake the old doilies off the useless tables) I've tolerated a cut to the spine. Amphibrachy of the lifetime, chronic and Semi-salvageable. No scalpel To my gory core--merely a rain of pharmacology [End poem]. This has been a Garish Media hue and cry. The media is omnipresent, and so are we [End life-altering announcement]. [Begin purpling]. It's a secret to everybody! If you have noticed or listened to any of my ALT-texts before, will you please reply to this skeeeeeeet with something on the subject of food? I'm curious how many of you there are. Many thanks! [End purpling]. [End].
