Linear Equations Poem by Edward Nudelman

Matrices of pixels, each dot depending on the next dot.
Two birds times one updraft equals sum of lift and glide.
Graph the sun's fall as a function of a gnat's perception
of time. Are there only a hundred suns in a gnat's life?
Graph darkness versus its tendency to lighten.
There are rows of atoms in rows of cells in rows of corn.
The volume of air in a cave is greater than all its parts.
Ask a spelunker to differentiate light's vector.
Follow that course. Graph the activity of a winter bird
as a function of ambient temperature.
Graph all of the molecules in the universe
as a function of size: its integral is somewhere between
one and infinity, but not the middle number.
Balance the equation: entropy equals one heartbeat
divided by zero, and then explain to me why heat
will not flow from a colder body to a hotter body.
You should be dead, but you aren't. Graph that.