You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator

And together we'll work out on the escalator

I will time you as you run up the down

And you'll measure my footsteps as I pleasure this town

The mean of our heights is divided by the nights

Which is times'd by the daggers and the root of all our fights

The pass of your poem is to swathe me in your knowing

And the beauty of the word is that you don't have to show it

Oh academia you can't pick me up

Soothe me with your words when I need your love

I am a dash and you are a dot

When will you see that I am all that you've got

I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago

But to you I'm just a novel that you wish you'd never wrote

I'm greater than x and lesser than y so why is it

That I still can't catch your eye

You're a cryptic crossword a song I've never heard

While I sit here drawing circles I'm afraid of being hurt

Oh academia you can't pick me up

Soothe me with your words when I need your love

You're a difficult equation with a knack for heart evasion

Will you listen to my proof or will you add another page on

It appears to me the graph has come and stolen all the laughs

It appears to me the pen has over analysed again

And if I am a number I'm infinity plus one

And if you are five words you are afraid to be the one

And if you are a number you're infinity plus one

And if I am four words then I am needing all your love

Oh academia you can't pick me up

Soothe me with your words when I need your love

Academia