The Thistlethwaite Gallery
for May 8, 2008NEW IMPROVED HEAD is honoured to have introduced the poetry of Cecil C. Thistlethwaite to the Web. With the kind permission of Outlier Press we will be presenting here a rotating selection of Cecil's poems. The number of poems posted each week will vary.
More of Cecil's poems, as well as poems and stories by other great writers, can be found at the Outlier Press website.
Math minus Mozart There's a proposition
often uttered by fanatics,
that listening to Mozart
boosts performance in mathematics.Mozart's work is intricate
and many people love it,
but here is how to boost your math:
do more of it.Outlier's Lament With some of us,
it takes some nerve
to place us on
the normal curve.Normalcy seems
so remote
way out here on
the asymptote.Berth It's just the same for everyone,
it will not do to panic –but being born is very much
like boarding the Titanic.
"Math minus Mozart," "Outlier's Lament", and "Berth" © David Mark Wideman, 2000, 1999, 1999
