Algebra Teacher, Retired

She taught algebra to everyone who ever lived –

at least it seems that way to her, now that she’s done with it –

and in a hapless manner multiplies by x the ones she did

teach x y equals y x to. Her head is large with recollection –

full of her mathematics-ridden aptitudes which were

her ticket to a life. She never married, though had she

been born a man she would have passionately loved a wife.









.