The Square Root of Three
By Kumar Patel
I fear that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
A three is all that’s good and right
Why must my three keep out if sight
Beneath a vicious square-root sign?
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick
With just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun
As 1.7321
Such is my reality
A sad irrationality
When, hark, just what is this I see?
Another square root of a three
Had quietly come waltzing by
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from mortal bonds
And with a wave of magic wands
Our square-root signs become unglued
And love for me has been renewed
(Poem Originally From: Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay)
