237. bear baiting’s bad, and no-one should ask

bear baiting’s bad, and no-one should ask
a bear or another big animal that,
but when you’ve got one (shot) equations to trouble,
you don’t spare the bear (that meaning is muddled)

bears, BLESS THEIR HEARTS, have battle been hardened,
for what they in tundra with berries and bark will
set up in a scene with fake byzantines —
I DON’T KNOW WHY, but it passes the evenings

the bears aren’t based in cockroaches, say with
byzantines mostly (equations have made them),
so when you against a phalanx of six
(or twenty, a hundred, whatever) they stick

equations retreated their game-plan rethink (to),
this business of building on vermin to feed the
empire is awful, and getting too costly,
at bilan-sur-mer on the french col de salsa

EQUATIONS, said one, THOUGH OUR CAUSE IS UNJUST,
AND OUR PEOPLE ARE PURCHASED, AND OUR CHILDREN ARE MUGS —
this isn’t exactly the way he had planned it
(equation guy one) and slowly back down (sit)

equation two guy stepped up to the mike,
and lobbed into long winded mathematical writing,
I PUT IT TO YOU, the conference, root
square one of bears is the fault in the foot

achilles our heel, they’re breaking the wheel,
they’re messing up what had been good things for wheat —
the best thing to do, said equation guy two,
is kill all the bears and start over new

equation guy three, who’s geometry,
worried for axes, dimensions, i mean,
the world isn’t where (just) earth, it is varied,
outside, in deep space, the earth is load bearing

black holes are brilliant (equation guy three said),
but zoning permits, etc., are built with —
you put one a region that’s already teamed with —
they’ll sue you for damages, location, for fees with
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