Swapping Geometry for answers

How many summers in a square?
Asked winter of the triangle.
The triangle wanted to answer,
But he had no opinion.

How many squares in a government?
Asked the student of his professor,
The professor wanted to answer,
But could offer no proper solution.

How many punishments are in my sentence?
Asked the prisoner of his parole officer,
How many crows are in a murder?
How many murders are performed by Crows?
Asked a small boy of Edgar Allen Poe,
Who had no answer and decided to base his poem around the Raven.

Nevermore will we swap geometry for answers,
When no answers are forthcoming,
Nevermore will we swap money for honour,
And loyalty for someone else’s treachery,
Said the King to his people,
Who were too busy watching the football
To listen to their sovereign’s warning.

Nevermore will we swap the riches of this afternoon,
For the promise of tomorrow’s morning
Said the king of time,
As he froze the sands in the hourglass
And paid back what he owed for his crime.