The poem
Vodou = (Hidden Agendas)(Political Entertainment) ⁄ Convenient Deceptions
The value of vodou is to the value of hidden agendas as the value of political entertainment is to the value of convenient deceptions.
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.
- Vodou = (Hidden Agendas)(Political Entertainment) ⁄ Convenient Deceptions
- Hidden Agendas = (Vodou)(Convenient Deceptions) ⁄ Political Entertainment
- Political Entertainment = (Convenient Deceptions)(Vodou) ⁄ Hidden Agendas
- Convenient Deceptions = (Political Entertainment)(Hidden Agendas) ⁄ Vodou