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Does your mathematical journey so far look like one that is anything but a straight line? Welcome to the club!

Not just to think out of the box, we often need to be (forcefully) thrown out of our cubicle if we truly want to be creative (or positively destructive).

It’s not easy to step out of our comfort zone, but it’s far better than living our mathematical life in a box, or under a half-witted boss or inept HOD.

Are we prepared to live differently from the way the Ministry of Education or the school or the publisher wants you to work? Each of these places doesn’t want you to rock the boat.

Are you still waiting until you got time to start working on that manuscript or time to read those math classics or bestsellers you’d have already read—if you wait for the (right?) time, the chances that you’ll never do it.

Long to indulge in some math poetry? Or volunteer as a math tutor in your community? Or set up that math clinic to help symbols-phobic sufferers by educating them that math is more psychological than logical? What’s preventing you? Family? Gym? Your daily dose of Nexflix or LinkedIn news?

Live your [mathematical] life the way you want to be lived rather than live it the way others want you to live it. Don’t wait for permission—it’ll never come.

Maybe we can all learn a thing or two from “chosen & anointed” Trump: Disrupt, dismiss, and destroy—in the positive sense!

It’s never too late to be an odd in a sea of evens!

Purposefully yours

Ex-president Trump’s criminal hush-money trial in New York provides much fodder for comedians and political pundits, not to say, math educators and poets, to poke fun at the lasagna of lies exposed by the prosecution and defense teams.

Below is a math meme that was X-ed, when the ex-Commander in Cheat’s defense lawyer was cross-examining his “ex-fixer” in the court case.

Political Math: When two serial liars failed to convince a jury of recreational math educators from the “fine” city of Singapore that they’d be exempted from a mock high school test paper.

5G Dishonesty

Thanks to Mr. Pinocchio and his once-most-loyal lawyer, who said he’d take a bullet for his ex-client, even math teachers and writers (and pseudo-poets) around the globe couldn’t resist from indulging in some poetic licence.

A Tale of Two Liars

One lied n times, but repented at the (n+1)th time.
The other keeps lying for the nⁿth time.

Once, they’re lying buddies.
Now, they’re lying enemies.

The seasoned liar served his time.
The serial liar will serve his soon.

Below is a haiku that was hatched in the aftermath of the revelation that pseudonyms were contractually used in the hush money payment.

The Fart of the Deal

Dennison denied
having fun with Peterson.
Even Satan laughed.

X-Rated Calculus

Another “adult math” meme that was tweeted to irreverently expose the ex-president’s constant denial of his affair with a former porn star is the following:

Political Calculus: The Real Analysis of the Trump-Daniels Affair. Meme posted by Shivam Kr (Jan. 28, 2022) to the “Mathematical Mathematics Memes” page.

More MAGA Haikus

Let’s end with four haikus based on the duo’s decades-long manifold lies.

The Hush-Money Case

Your lies tickle us.
“Election interference”?
It’s not—it’s jail time.

L___I___A___R___S

The bigly liar
and his ex-“fixer,” who’s jailed,
but he’s still free.

They praised each other,
but they each deserve jail time
for their lies and crimes.

Among loyalists,
he pardoned some jailed buddies,
not his loyal “friend.”

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