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Similar Triangles Poem

Hatriotism And
The Zombie Apocalypse

2022
Digital
Hatriotism And The Zombie Apocalypse, 2022 — Spilled Blood = ((Liberty)(The Carpenter Ant)) / The Soul of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Hatriotism And The Zombie Apocalypse, 2022 — digital
The poem Spilled Blood  =  (Liberty)(The Carpenter Ant) ⁄ The Soul of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

The value of spilled blood is to the value of liberty as the value of the carpenter ant is to the value of the soul of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.

The same poem, solved four ways

A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.

  1. Spilled Blood = (Liberty)(The Carpenter Ant) ⁄ The Soul of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
  2. Liberty = (Spilled Blood)(The Soul of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis) ⁄ The Carpenter Ant
  3. The Carpenter Ant = (The Soul of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis)(Spilled Blood) ⁄ Liberty
  4. The Soul of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis = (The Carpenter Ant)(Liberty) ⁄ Spilled Blood
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