No Exceptions

Unusual phenotypes,
Unusual genotypes
Unite! Mathematics is

A set of relationships
And relationships among
Relationships that hold up

Seemingly no matter what,
Sought and cherished just for that,
But biology tends more

To unstable relations,
Which raises more suspicions
Among human beings prone

To exceptionalism.
We’re special and you’re evil
Runs an old, familiar song.

But no one’s exceptional,
If you do the math, unless
You arrange the terms just so.

The phenotype that looks odd
At an angle is even
Plain among its similars.

No relationship stays put
In the exceptional game
Of deciding who is strange.