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Similar Triangles Poem

Disengendered

2020
Pencil on paper
Disengendered, 2020 — pencil on paper — The Lost Soul = ((Being On An Ocean Raft)(Cosmic Nursery)) / Times Square
Disengendered, 2020 — pencil on paper
The poem The Lost Soul  =  (Being On An Ocean Raft)(Cosmic Nursery) ⁄ Times Square

The value of the lost soul is to the value of being on an ocean raft as the value of a cosmic nursery is to the value of Times Square.

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.

  1. The Lost Soul = (Being On An Ocean Raft)(Cosmic Nursery) ⁄ Times Square
  2. Being On An Ocean Raft = (The Lost Soul)(Times Square) ⁄ Cosmic Nursery
  3. Cosmic Nursery = (Times Square)(The Lost Soul) ⁄ Being On An Ocean Raft
  4. Times Square = (Cosmic Nursery)(Being On An Ocean Raft) ⁄ The Lost Soul
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