A math grad by Dan Brown - The New Criterion

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November 2008

A math grad

Burke

was right!

Math’s a matter some make
More of than the norm. I’m
Thinking of a math grad
I shared a loft with for a time.
Who a while back had had a break-
Down, he once confessed from bed

To bed. Nothing he thought about
A lot… . He pauses. Then goes on
To speak, sane-seemingly enough,
Of a funny class of functions. One
Whose characteristic graph starts out
With the usual smooth take-off,

Somewhere along the line goes
Into a beauty of a loop-
De-loop for whatever reason, then
Picks its rising right up
Where it left off, and never does
Anything like that again.

Dan Brown's Taking the Occasion, winner of the eighth annual New Criterion Poetry Prize, was recently published by Ivan R. Dee.

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