Fibonacci and Farts

Because it’s International Book Week AND because I’m dog tired (why not ‘cat tired?’ don’t they sleep just as much, if not more?) I give you poems by two of my favs. Yup, Sherman Alexie and Charles Bukowski.

Cheers!

Unkissed is a fibonacci sequence poem by Sherman Alexie.

What's this fibonacci stuff?

'Fibonacci poetry is a literary form based on the Fibonacci number sequence. The sequence begins like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. In order to find the next number in the sequence, you add the two preceding numbers. The sum of these two is the next number, which then is added to the one before it to get to the next number, and so on. This is how it works:

1 + 0 = 1
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 1 = 3
3 + 2 = 5
5 + 3 = 8
8 + 5 = 13
13 + 8 = 21
etc.

The Fibonacci sequence appears often in nature as the underlying form of growing patterns. For example, conch shells and sunflowers follow the pattern as they grow in a spiral formation that increases as it moves outward.'

Unkissed

A Fibonacci Sequence Poem

by Sherman Alexie

1.

Who
Knew
The man
Would jackknife,
Leave his lovely wife,
And abandon his preschool kids?
He told me once, "I hate my life." So who knew? I did.

more poem  and more about fibonnaci at the linkies.

This one, Gas by Charles Bukowski is hilarious, fun and more.

my grandmother had a serious gas
problem.
we only saw her on Sunday.
she'd sit down to dinner
and she'd have gas.
she was very heavy,
80 years old.
wore this large glass brooch,
that's what you noticed most
in addition to the gas.

Go to the link for the whole poem -- it's WAY worth it.