A Squircle

A rounded square
Which to determine its dimensions
Is so laborious a calculation,
Yet, nonetheless, simply exists
In many utilitarian ways.

There are many innocuous things
We take for granted in life.
Even in some simple shapes,
There are such eccentricities
That it would take a Doctor of Math
Just to figure them out.
Of which, I am not one.
But, I pleasantly muse
Over their formulas
Knowing that greater minds than mine
Are hard at work.