Ha! You think it would be this easy! However, if you like warped mathematical poetry, here are the prologue and epilogue of my dissertation. And, of course, where would we be now without the official poetic sacrifice of the First International IMACS Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra? (Probably saner actually, but it's so hard to tell anymore. Right, Michael? Yes, that's right, Michael.) More to come in time, or perhaps in rhyme ...