At New York’s Kennedy airport today, a man later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a protractor, a T-square, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI for carrying weapons of math instruction.

“Al-gebra is a very fearsome cult,” Ashcroft said. “They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search for the absolute value. They use secret code names like “x” and “y” and refer to themselves as “unknowns”, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are three sides to every triangle.”

“These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex.

writing is hope

the hope someone will hear

a small forgotten voice

reaching out to the world

hope curling every line

around an emotion

tying the page

in the writer’s strong hand

when the page

is torn by others

and hidden from the light

how will the author

have his hope

when it is stopped from shining

darkness encircles the mind

of an author without hope

and now he writes

of improper things

no more dreams or prayers

now he writes of pain

the pain of silence

for all to hear

when his pain

is ignored by others

and the holes it burned

are sown together once more

how will the author

have his pain

when it is stopped from hurting

a writer left without a story

no way of speaking

without words

he walks alone in silence

for his mind still thinks in emotion

but he cannot share

his purpose is gone

and nothing is left for him

he leaves this world with

the notice of none

he left

but he left

without a voice