Shape of Things To Come

shape up said the circle to the square you’re a bit rough around the edges far too closed in for comfort and joy I can’t help it I’m all full of angles right ones and wrong perspectives constant rectangular doom so to speak look at me I am a ring of fire and passion diametrically sound complete at the centre rounded and packed with infinite promise you’ve no beginning unaware of the start state you’re a wheel in perpetual motion while I am grounded and sure of myself no such thing for you are rigid and static unsure where you’re going if moving at all condemned to inflexible and taut stiffness and so they squabbled from angry premises valid arguments and debatable conclusions righteous and unbending in their opposition until an ellipse and parallelogram came along change needs shifting paradigms under pressure the square opened and jumped into the circle anchored tangents perimeter and firm compromise let us please wed our disadvantages and strength no contradiction but complementing each other Pythagoras meets Sisyphus and they applaud 27th November 2020