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Poetry
Science Fiction
Everything you heard
about its difficulty is true: based
on teuthoid anatomy, the completely different
numeration scale; the four different kinds of zeroes
(any two of which—gulp—can function
as divisors); the single number that stands for all primes.
In its own way, it's quite eloquent and intriguing, like
those Mozartian compositions that accompanied us
in the sleepyears of our diaspora, and I don't
mind studying it.
What I do object to, however, is my parents'
insistence I excel at it, thereby
perpetuating the stereotype that all erdkinder
(to pick a gentler racial epithet)
are gifted in math and the sciences.
I've therefore decided that as sure as 5 + 5 = 14
and there are three moons
in the sky, I will deliberately fail
my next exam.
My parents may be furious, but who cares?
My shiksa girlfriend, embracing me in a swirl of tentacles,
loves rebels even more.
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Copyright 2008, Robert Borski. All rights reserved. Robert Borski describes himself as a late-blooming child prodigy. He is the author of two books about Gene Wolfe (Solar Labyrinth, The Long and the Short of It) and lives in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
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