Saturday, April 08, 2006

Love and Algebraic Logic

Problem #1:
Divide this relationship
into two equal (unequal?) parts--
the writer and the mathematician--
and find the minimum and maximum values
of the objective quantity.
Is there such a thing?
An objective quantity
in a relationship
where words and numbers
are seeking to intersect?

Writers write, emote, express, mark, inscribe, put pen to paper, compose, create, jot down, record--
all in an effort to translate emotion
into words on a page
and feelings in a heart.

Mathematicians cipher,
clip their language
into numeric equivalents
that condense the heart's vast space
into one side of the equation.

Is it possible to graph love's vertices?
Chart its depths?
Simplify it to the least common denominator?

Can you solve love's conflict
using the elimination method
with a value for love's unknown?

When love's lines intercept
and you factor in everything--
all the emotion and the uncertainty--
all the anticipation
and nuances of expression and gesture--
what's created?
An inverse of a relationship?
Happy-ever-after polynomial bliss?
Or the leftovers from the inequality?
Where, exactly,
is the midpoint between lover and loved
with a mathematician and a writer?

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