If I told the truth

If I told the truth
You would not believe me.
If I said: no fellow soul
Drops death from the air, no conscious plot
Drove us underground you would laugh
As if I had twitched the wax mouth
Of my tragic mask into a smile -
A smile to you; to me the truth behind
The catenary: locus of the transcendental:
y = a/2 (e^x/a + e^-x/a)

-Thomas Pynchon - V.

6 comments

1. madhavi says:

   Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….!

   May 26th, 2006 at 06:47 pm

2. Neha says:

   dont know what to say, but the first two lines made me think… truth is stranger than fiction…

   May 26th, 2006 at 07:31 pm

3. Dolphin says:

   
   “Why should things be easy to understand?”

   The curve of u’r lips when u smile, the center of my happiness…

   Now Now…..isn’t mathematics beautiful….:mrgreen:

   May 26th, 2006 at 07:34 pm

4. Dolphin says:

   this poem is actually sinister
   If i was Lucifer, i would write a poem like this….

   May 26th, 2006 at 11:33 pm

5. Kunal Goel says:

   what does that equation mean?

   May 27th, 2006 at 12:03 am

6. Anusha Mujumdar says:

   A catenary is the shape a heavy chain takes when hung in a gravitaional field…
   Beautiful poetry.

   May 28th, 2006 at 08:04 pm

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