The Metric System
by Franco Bertucci
In music we divide by twos and threes.
These be the rhythms that please.
(A useless thing, the tenth note; unnatural, unholy.)
The numbers after the decimal stretch to infinity,
And so we decline to use them, also, in carpentry.There is such a thing as a perfect joint,
I’ve seen it.
And when he called up the measurement, he did not say “point.”Poems and other embarassing things. 2011 Franco Bertucci