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My Friend in Math
  Through the usual spectacle it’s lost
  Obscured by the vanities we endure
  The strings of soul continually crossed
  Her light inside so pure
  
  To others it might seem a mystery
  Surely this isn’t her way
  But alas I see with great clarity
  The Math! It soothes her stay
  
  Tonight she sings of no greater truth
  Than that of a Slope-Field Equation
  Her dance with infinity increasingly smooth
  A variable just needs her persuasion
  
  Wistful am I on this beach of a night
  Remembering a tangible myth
  With numbers Oh numbers I saw a playwright!
  A mathematical monolith

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This poem is a single part of a series of efforts to memorialize the fond memories I've had in childhood and adolescence. This piece in particular is dedicated to a girl who served as my moral and mathematical compass during calculus class junior year. She stands alone in my thoughts like a monolith.