The poem
Freedom = (Money)(Irresponsibility) ⁄ Obsession
The value of freedom is to the value of money as the value of irresponsibility is to the value of obsession.
The same poem, solved four ways
A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.
- Freedom = (Money)(Irresponsibility) ⁄ Obsession
- Money = (Freedom)(Obsession) ⁄ Irresponsibility
- Irresponsibility = (Obsession)(Freedom) ⁄ Money
- Obsession = (Irresponsibility)(Money) ⁄ Freedom