I lack the skill of mimicking a cat
Mimesis makes me copy acrobats
I cannot do the crossword in the Times
If I’m free, I marry many rhymes
A cartoon left me cold,I needed words
I preferred to talk except to birds
But now I reach the higher slopes of life
I eat cartoons for breakfast with a knife
In mathematics we use little signs
The science of pattern circles all my lines
We learn to write what others knew by craft,
The hand precedes the brain, the warp, the weft
The Scribes were groups who wrote what others said
Scroll by scroll the Hebrew Bible’s read
