Valentina

With Valentina comes a crowd. She adds
a touch of this, a little touch of that.
A paper, or an interesting chat,
she tells about the places where she was

and of the many people she has met.
She travels all along this world, you know.
If there’s a conference, I’m sure she’ll go.
And so she’s working on her giant net.

The Erdös-number is well known in math:
the distance to a famous scientist.
In CSE this is a useless thing.

I know that you will meet her on your path.
If not, I’m sure you don’t know whom you’ve missed.
Cause she knows everyone and everything.


Geplaatst op

december 2018

Voor onze gastvrouw op een Doctarate Consortium in Druskininkai, Litouwen, de alom tegenwoordige professor Valentina Dagiene, Gebaseerd op en schatplichtig aan het gedicht Colombina van Edna St. Vincent Millay.