Immigrant Complex

By Rodica Simion

(Appeared in : "Against Infinity", An Anthology of Contemporary Mathematical Poetry, edited by Ernest Robson and Jet Wimp, 1979, p. 66. Published by Primary Press, Parker Ford, PA, and Jet Wimp, Drexel University.)


I have a
complex
not simplicial (it is-in fact-
involved)
not a cell-complex
(my cells are
fine)
not a CW
 
complex
(I have no com-
plexion no weight
problems)
 
it is a 
language
complex
 
my thinking is of
class C-one even
C-infinity
 
it does not matter:
my speech 
approximates it by
linear functions
only
my talk (being merely
polygonal) wastes 
my
C-n (n  > > 0)
mind

Bio written by Rodica in ibid, p. 87 (1979): Rodica Simion was born 24 years ago between the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube, and the Black Sea; and has had poems and essays published in literary magazines and anthologies in Romania. Currently she is a student in the graduate department of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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