Study-Break

This blog will return to its regularly scheduled posting in the very very near future. I swear. I just wanted to pop on and share a poem I wrote earlier in the semester.

Significant Figures

We are too willing to round off,

leave imprecise

and afraid that more information will lead us

to a less accurate measurement.

For if we can evaluate each other

beyond darker/lighter/queerer skins

If we can detect the intricacies of those details,

we feel

somehow

that we might get the wrong answer.

Regardless of the fact

that the instructor told us to leave the extra numbers in,

for precision

they will come in handy later.

Or at least enough to show your work.

Yet somehow we always think it better to exclude

the details.

Ignore the stories.

And sit an order of magnitude away from those

who could be our closest friends.