The triangle ate himself into a circle Because people told him he was too square And they meant the informal definition So he kept eating to change his shape He added a few pounds that multiplied his weight But that didn't help He wanted to be wondrous Why couldn't he have been a rhombus Why couldn't he have been born into a parallelogram family I saw him sulking in the fact he was half the diagram I told him he needed to go on a diet And strengthen himself into a pyramid And only then would his base be the foundation Of the family He has always wanted