Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths

Our two tabby kittens
Know a lot about science
They’re not fazed by
Instruction Manuals

The dishwasher holds no terrors
A quick swipe of a paw
Sends the blades spinning
Curiosity satisfied they leave the loading to me.

They’ve dialled my wife from my Iphone
Explored the inside of the oven
Noting its wattage before calculating
Its chicken cooking capacity

Digital TV is essential viewing
And although they complain
It’s not been upgraded to “Touch screen”
They’re content to watch repeats of “Morse”

Mathematics is not their forte
Although they integrate well
And can differentiate between
The qualities of two competing cat foods.
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I once sat on a hypotenuse
Read the log to the base of 10
Got partial with a differential
And am irrational about e numbers

Try as I may squaring
A circle is beyond me
String theory ties me in knots
And Pulsars leave me dizzy

In my younger days
I could raise 2 to the power of n
Now I can barely lift it
I’m Zeno’s tortoise overtaken by age
Not Achilles

My mother taught me trigonometry
My father the secrets of Primes
I’ve had my pi and ate it
And proved Fermat’s Last Theorem