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As in fours did forms appear Once swept beneath the silent seas As if in words this world sprang forth: Pens, pencils, paper On Sheridan Road The Saxaphone God Mile thirty-thousand My fathers whiskers Her Words Reecho Inner Light glows red She breathes as she sleeps Nakanishi's socks These mountains our voices make And this world dissolves into sounds: The solid sounds mountains
Their hair wears thin He loads the vending machine His voice He has seen the weary travelers His voice His yellowed eyes shine with smile His voice I'm naked in these dreams I'm naked in these dreams I'm naked in these dreams I'm naked in these dreams I'm naked in these dreams These matters are Sirens sceam our anguish Defeat waiting before we start As if in queue, we wait This next is acutally a song. I play it in E, but beware the rhythm
is a little bit strange because the lyric to the refrain holds out a couple of extra beats. I've been calculating Poems
Ufish Thoughts
Swept away thoughts
Some parts in parcel here
With force informed in forms so clear.
Of disregard
In lights did these
Words in touch enlight and please.
thoughts without thought
Search the void in conscious form
To mean the means that thought was formed.
Some Haiku
Exam
they attempt to solve problems
that teachers set forth.
Social Protest
Loud tape sings reggae music
Roll the windows down.
Tenor
Coltrane: hot winter whiskey
blow cool summer breeze.
Travelling alone
Steam rises from yellow piss
relief as cars pass
Skin Bracer
Scratch my lips, his cheek I kiss
Rough shaved many times.
Conference Haiku
Blackboards and Cinder Block Walls:
A Technical Talk
A Glance to the Side
Scientist eyes reflected
Thought's passion revealed
Afternoon Nap
Her head resting on my lap
The cat's on her legs.
Nakanishi's Socks
Ten chambers, one for each toe
His feet must be warm.
Liquifaction / Quantum Waves
and through this valley
a river of meaning runs
a spectral display of sounds which
if we could see, would seem
very much like that other world:
our mind visions.
different wave forms
like T.V. it passes through
our bodies also dissolved and free.
real as light solid stopped
to see the whisper willow
shake gently in the water.
Topologist Conference
Their dynamically expanding
grey jello brains
obstructed against a thick wall
The frontiers of knowledge.
Greyhound Blues
at the greyhound station
downtown
His life is simple, pure
His soul is not lacking
is clear as he speaks the blues.
He does not travel much now
Those days are gone
He drinks beer
He smokes King Edward cigars
is clear as he speaks the blues.
He remembers the way his life has run
A tear softly breaks
He blinks
is clear as he speaks the blues.
Naked Dreams
unarmed completely free
vulnerable and frail
crossing mud bridges
tripping on the tangles of dead cudzoo
muscles in my legs aware
as I run, full of breath
in antelope strides
shielded by my aura
as I travel through grey cities
unseen, yet I see
Rhetoric
mathematical
not
medical
nor
ethical
nor
politically controversial
And
Time
is spent
frugally
when
more than
Time
is at stake
Godot, Detroit, and Pending Unemployment
Marking time in this soul-less city:
Decayed beyond funky:
The Pheonix too tired
to rise from ashes
of a riot twenty one years ago.
our ideas crushed
as they leave our mouths
The hope of spring dashed
Another day of freezing cold
Another day yet in limbo.
The Quantum Gravity Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues
I said I've
been calculating
calculating all night long
and I wrote down the coproduct wrong.
I've been writing down knot diagrams
converting them to braids
Using the Alexander isotopy
you know I'm not afraid
I've been
assigning modules
to each of these six strings
been doin' it
for weeks now
and I still don't understand a thing.
I've
got them old Quantum Gravity
Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues
I've got them old Quantum Gravity
Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues
And without NSF funding I think that you would, too.
This is on the Anteaters Tape.
I'm a going to tell you all you need to know
To be the master rapper of the calculus show:
Now the first thing you do is to take the limit;
Yes that's right, that's how to begin it.
You don't need to use epsilon delta stuff,
Four simple rules are going to be enough:
The limit of a constant is still a constant
And the limit of a sum is the sum of the limits
The limit of a product is the product of the limits
And the limit of the quotient is the quotient of the limits
provided that the limit of the denominator is not zero.
This last condition is certainly necessary
for in this case you must be clever!
Now the thing upon which we will take the limit
is an object known as the Newton quotient
It's a simple object so will you repeat it:
Say ef of ex plus delta ex minus ef of ex over delta ex
Say ef of ex plus delta ex minus ef of ex over delta ex
Now this here limit is evavaluated as delta ex approaches zero
Given a function when you take this limit
The resulting quantity is called the derivative
But in general it is quite inefficient
To take the derivative by using the limit
SO a few simple rules will help you in fact
Master the world of the calculus rap.
The power rule is very simple
using it will cure your pimples
See the derivative of ex to the en
is en times ex to the en minus one
en times ex to the en minus one
don't be frightened don't be scared
differentiate the function ex squared
Yes the derivative of ex to the two
is two times ex
And any old fat headed thick skulled rube
Can differentiate the function ex cubed
Yes the derivative of ex to the three
is three times ex to the two
The next of the rules that we will employ
Is the product rule so stop calling me "Boy!"
The derivative of how times doo
is do dee how plus how dee doo
Where the conotation of the notation dee
Is to differentiate, naturally.
Now the next of the rules ain't a rule for fools
this here rule is the quotient rule
Yes the derivative of hi over ho
is ho dee hi minus hi dee ho
over ho ho
And the next few functions will not make you go mental
these are the functions that are called transcendental
Say derivative of the sine of ex is
the cosine of ex.
And the derivative of the cosine of ex is
minus the sine of ex.
And the derivative of ee to the ex is
ee to the ex.
And the derivative of the natural log of ex is
one over ex.
The next of the rules is the golden rule
This here rule is called the chain rule
We apply it to the composite of functions
it is very much like peeling an onion
layer by layer oh yes it's a fun one:
Now suppose that a function ach of ex
can be written in the form ef of gee of ex
Then the derivative of ach of ex
is the derivative of ef at gee of ex
times the derivative of gee at ex
We often say dee why dee ex
is dee why dee you times dee you dee ex
where why is ef and you is gee
why is ef and you is gee
but it's alphabet soup if you want to ask me
Now put on your coat and put on your hat
Since you have completed the calculus rap
Yes put on your shoes and put on your pants
Because in the next song we do the calculus dance!
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