Lyrics
The brass plaque under glass at the Charleston Met
Has a typo in grandmama's name, did you forget?
I still smell your study from that humid Tuesday,
Pluff mud and turpentine when you gave her away.
[Chorus]
Father, you call your work a rigorous proof,
But your variables lie, and you edit the truth.
You're a crooked asymptote, a function of pride,
Getting close, but you never touch the line from inside.
[Verse 2]
Mama’s hands knew a math you refused to define,
The convergent series of sweetgrass and pine.
She'd say, "See, the spiral will always hold true,"
A geometry sacred, and so wasted on you.
[Bridge]
You solved for your own name, and left us the remainder.
Six years of silence. An integer of anger.
[Outro]
The problem is closed now.
I've cancelled you out.
About Nina Simons
Nina Simons was raised on St. Helena Island, in the heart of Gullah Geechee country, learning Bach from her professor father and the art of storytelling from her basket-weaving mother. Six years ago, her father sold their ancestral heirlooms to a museum for academic prestige, and she hasn't spoken to him since. Now, from a small stage in Beaufort, South Carolina, she turns that silence into…
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