At the Intersection

Some poems

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834.

To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

The poem consists of 2 overlapping circles. ‘me’, the left-hand circle reads: the day we went out to have an ice-cream, we said nothing just let our silence melt in the air as we walked across the common our love never tiring at all ‘you’, the right-hand circle reads: we should have talked it over but nothing ever seems to get in your fat head. You are so common that I wish we’d never met at all and I’d married Tim instead   Where the 2 circles overlap, the text reads: we have nothing in common at all

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8 thoughts on “At the Intersection”

  3. blizzardpurplee540372d97's avatar

    That is so creative, Brian! As a retired teacher who used to write songs and poems to teach math and reading, I wish I would have thought to write a Venn poem. What a great way to teach it!

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