Tuesday, March 9, 2021

An Uncomfortable Lesson in 3-Dimensional Topology

In your morning routine, if you make a slip
binding your belt from hip to hip
  and turn it one twist--
  Any analyst
of mathematics will tell you: You've made a Möbius strip.

Monday, March 1, 2021

In Praise of Bad Movies (Within Limits)

There was pathos in Detective Pikachu:
we found that Pokémon have feelings too.
There's childish charm to Godzilla & Co--
in a lizard suit, sure looks like a hoot
to demolish a scale-model Tokyo.
For philosophic soliloquies
Roger Corman can't but please
with speeches proclaimed like the prayer of a preacher:
"He learned, almost too late, that man is a feeling creature..."
Well,  B-movies don't play at the Berlinale,
and they don't win the Palme d'Or or prizes as Venice,
but say what you will, still my samples are all
better by far than The Phantom Menace.