6 Squared

She vows to love me if...

I will love her without

Condition but cannot

Change, become someone else,

Something I am not, just

So that she may love me

A few years ago the UK Poetry Society announced they were looking to get involved in projects in which people were creating poems based on the way computers interact with people. The idea is arse dribble of course, computers do not interact with people simply because computers have no knowledge of who is operating them or why. Humans interact with each other through computers in the same way as we do through books, televisions or telephones.

I decided to do some poems based on mathematical principles. This is six squared, six lines of six syllables per line. A more ambitious project is Ten cubed, ten ten-line stanzas of ten syllables per line. It is finished but I lost it (temporarily I'm sure.)