| Rationalists, wearing square hats |  |
| By Wallace Stevens | |||
| Wednesday, 03 October 2012 | |||
| Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.
If they tried rhomboids,
Cones, waving lines, ellipses—
As for example, the ellipse of the half-moon—
Rationalists would wear sombreros.
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