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Frank Arouet
 
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Pythagoras was quiet unfair on

boys and girls-but what's the use?

People still tell me there is a square on the Hypotenuse.

Trust the hypotenuse; it's fine;

It won't have snakes or bears on;

But nor, since it's just a line, will it have squares on.

And yet when I said this at school,

I had to spend my youth

In being called all sorts of fool

For speaking the truth.

Pythagoras, of Samian birth, studied phylosophy;

An ass, as he thought, returned to earth

As you or me.

Metempsychosis- transmigrating-

Two frightful words to spell;

A frightful notion also, rating a padded cell.

Yet to this madman's tender cares

They gave me my adolescence,

Commanding to his silly squares

My acquiescence.

His followers were set on fire

Around five ten B.C.

A date in history to inspire

The likes of me.

My teachers lives have terminated;

So has Pythagoras's;

In case they've all been transmigrated

I'm kind to asses.

(apologies to Paul Griffin on Pythagoras 582-500 BC)

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