The Mathematics of Human Misery To calculate the quotient of Unnecessary pain One multiplies Unnecessary poetry by crime, Divides by one one-hundredth a percent And takes this figure to the power of The Forbes 500 squared But for the numerator to be pared To nil We need do nothing more than wait While hydrocarbons and the rising seas By not-so-fractional degrees Eliminate All human misery For good ________________________________________________________________________ Emanuel E. García, Wandering Bark, 2013 |