The Platonic Lesson (for Brent Noel)

Some think i am a rhombus without manners. i tell many who will listen my secret… i am a truncated icosahedron. The students the most isosceles of triangles hazard a response “Are they not extinct? sometime in the late cretaceous period perhaps?” i cry empty shapes of tears for it is easy to see that the age of geometry has long be extinct in their inward imaginations.