Psalm √2
A Prayer for the Salvation of the Math Students


Multiply not our numbers, O Lord,
for even now they reach into infinity.
Do not make walls of logs about us;
neither force us to dine at the table of squares.
Cut Pi and divide it among us;
then we may finish it off and be rid of it.
Repeal the Law of Sines, O Lord;
enforce not the judgment of the Law of Cosines.
Let us not follow the ways of the 90 degree angle,
for it only boasts of its own righteousness.
Grant that we may seek only our own identities,
abandoning those of trigonometry.
Lastly, heed not our many transgressions, O Lord,
rather, bestow upon us your merciful part credit.