The argument ran thus;

“What has Maths ever done for me?,

I mean it’s not like I even pretended

to take notice of the sex life

of the binary equation

and the evening antics of bisect,

the washing lines of Bicester not safe

when bisect was around, I haven’t given a toss

about trigonometry or the centimetre

since I discovered word play,

a cuboid is a Star Trek legend,

to estimate is for friends

the formula is a sport I don’t follow

a nine sided polygon is just