triangles

The Bermuda triangle is a so called imaginary place,
infamous for the ununusal amount of plane accidents that have occured there.
The most famous love triangle was between Onassis, Maria Callas, and Jackie Kennedy
until Onassis decided to marry Jackie,
leaving Maria destroyed.
In Trig we use 30-60-90 triangles,
the ratios being 1 to 2 to the sqaure root of 3, typing numbers quickly into our calculators on a test, the last day of April.
Triangles are shapes, disasters
three sides, three people,
180 degrees,
stuck inside one little
triangle.
Three birthmarks on your left forearm,
and when you lie asleep in your bed, i trace them
over and
over and
over
again.
Making triangles that you don't even know exist.
Because what happens when you are with one, but your heart belongs to
two?
Three sides, three people
all stuck inside 180 degrees,
all crashing in a mystery patch of land,
three sides, three people,
Trigonometry.
Because what happens when you are with one, but your heart
belongs
to
two?
A shape, a disaster.