This poem tries to express the difficulty of staying focused on one\u27s research when there is so much turmoil in the world

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Elephant in the Room

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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 13 | Issue 2 July 2023 Elephant in the Room Sabrina Sixta University of Toronto Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm  Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Sabrina Sixta, "Elephant in the Room," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 13 Issue 2 (July 2023), pages 509-509. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.WIJB6239. Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol13/iss2/31 ©2023 by the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. JHM is an open access bi-annual journal sponsored by the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences and published by the Claremont Colleges Library | ISSN 2159-8118 | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ The editorial staff of JHM works hard to make sure the scholarship disseminated in JHM is accurate and upholds professional ethical guidelines. However the views and opinions expressed in each published manuscript belong exclusively to the individual contributor(s). The publisher and the editors do not endorse or accept responsibility for them. See https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/policies.html for more information. Elephant in the RoomSabrina Sixtasabrina.sixta@mail.utoronto.caAs I sit here and thinkAbout random functions and how they link,I take a breakTo scroll through the news.Headline: another heat wave,There is nothing I can save.A billion marine animals have died,So ignore this I choose.There is little time to have criedFor the losses of lives.While the world keeps turningI am avoiding the blues.But I am a little uneasy.This feels too easy.To allow our planet to go deadWhile we keep living unbruised.Will civilization end with a bang,Or a coddled decline?Frogs in the boiling waterIgnoring heat cues.But I mustn’t surrender to climate distraction.This math paper needs immediate action.I must keep up with academic demands.Climate concern is only a muse.While I sit in my bare flatReading papers of theory and stat,A little voice won’t stop nagging me.A honking trunk is within our views.Are we marching towards our doom?The elephant in the room.Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 13 Number 2 (July 2023)

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