They told me you had proven it
About a month before.
The proof was valid, more or less He sent them word that we would try
But rather less than more. To pass where they had failed
And after we were done, to them
The new proof would be mailed.
My notion was to start again
Ignoring all they'd done
We quickly turned it into code When they discovered our results
To see if it would run. Their hair began to curl
Instead of understanding it
We'd run the thing through PRL.
Don't tell a soul about all this
For it must ever be
A secret, kept from all the rest
Between yourself and me.
So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark].
With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to
maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of
corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to
flop up onto the land and evolve....