Share your Favorite Poems

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>>ITT: We share our favorite poems. I'll go first.
Found this I think in a demystifying calculus book years ago, and I still love this poem.

Time was....
when first you'd burst beyond
the adolescent border
you'd proudly flex your operations of the second order
Your oh-so-formal thinking knew no formal inhibitions
To produce a proper proof you'd proposition propositions
But now your schemes are seeming
to be scheming
in your dreaming
Metacognitive absurdity has every structure screaming
You're fenced against a Lattice
by the groping of a Group
Your cognitorium is caught within a schizocognic loop:
Conjunction and disjunction
merit binary ablations
and who could give a hoot for implication's implications?
Biconditional relationships
have failed to set you free
yet you're incompatible with incompatibility
Combinations make you queasy
permutations make you blue
You never confound variables and yet they confound you
Correlation is a meaningless
statistical contortion
Your distrust of all proportions
Has grown out of all proportion
And though beneath it all
your INR still comes to C
you're strangling in your own combinatoriality
BUT DON'T DESPAIR!!
Don't tear your hair!
Don't let your mind grow numb!
you've not yet reached the terminal disequilibrium
Just snap those cognivalent cogs
predialectic bonds
and start constructing structures
of the stage that lies beyond:
A place where contradiction's knock
will never leave you vexed
where every dialectic
is a pointer toward the next
where paradox is paradigm!
(cognitions all in season)
where thoughts are all self-reinforced
and reason is the reason
You're asked to give colloquia from Paris to New Paltz
Say everything you've said
including this is truly false
Or falsely true!
What difference for a transcendental hero
who drolly juggles even roots of numbers less than zero?
Then in a voice
that's choice to voice
a choice you once thought grave
you tell of light-wave particles
particulary waves
Such epistemic stunts!
—you laugh!!—
and now the most unnerving:
You trace how space (inside black holes)
is infinitely curving!
But how is one to move beyond?
I often am beseeched
How is this stage of metastructuration to be reached?
A triune track to truth pertains
of which I'll gladly tell:
Assimilate
Accommodate
Equilibrate like hell