Daily Cascade

Prompt Words

Prompt:
Have fun with these words: mathematician, birthday, oddity, clutter, papers, eccentric, quirks, sailing, and promiscuous.
Take a guess on what these clues also will tell you about this person on their birthday.

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The Mathematician’s Birthday


the *mathematician has a *birthday today
lost in thoughts, numbers, and fractions at play

his *papers, his mess, in random sprawl,
and *clutter and numbers, his mind holds them all

*quirks, equations, his *eccentric delight
an *oddity *sailing, well into the night

still, he pines and wonders over an old affair
*promiscuous maybe, but no, he could swear

on theorems, graphs, angles forever anew
he's just bound and chained to only one view

the mathematician turned sixty today
thinking of an old love and fractions at play