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Similar Triangles Poem

Pandemic Meditations 13/13

2020
A Cognitive View Of Pandemic Meditations — A Mathematical Visual Poem
Pandemic Meditations 13/13, 2020 — a raven surrounded by small skeletons, beneath the equation Non-Attached Mind equals a jury of thirteen acute anxieties in a shouting match times my corporeal body, over a dark cloud of thirteen vultures encircling the corpse that my soul drags
Pandemic Meditations 13/13, 2020 — digital
The poem
Non-Attached Mind  = A Jury Of
13 Acute Anxieties
In A Shouting Match
My Corporeal Body
A Dark Cloud of 13 Vultures
Encircling The Corpse That My Soul Drags

Terms that are phrases

Nothing in the form says a term has to be a single word. Three of these four are whole phrases, and they sit in the proportion the same way a word would: the value of a non-attached mind is to the value of a jury of thirteen acute anxieties in a shouting match as the value of my corporeal body is to the value of a dark cloud of thirteen vultures encircling the corpse that my soul drags.

A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and it can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Solved for any of its four terms, a phrase can end up on the left of the equals sign.

Across the middle of the image runs the palindromic anagram eleven plus two = twelve plus one — the same letters on both sides of the equals sign, and the same number too.

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