My PI Poem (in honor of March 14th every year)

In teaching Geometry, I have challenged my students each March to memorize places of PI ... when I did this in Spring 2003, I decided to compete with them and wrote the poem below while swimming each morning to help me (in my 50's) memorize the digits ... I then worked with the first grade teacher and we audio-recorded it several times with different groups of children ... Steve Bergen (bergen@chapin.edu)
p.s. the girls started calling me Mister PI and would greet me as Mister PI every time I would see them.. I also taught them to see how far they could double numbers by going 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128 and so on ... what is amazing is that these same girls months later still come up to me in the hallway and say "hi Mister PI, 1,2,3, PI , 4, 5" ... I even had two Chapin girls stop me at a bus stop on York Avenue to remind me about PI ... this occasional teaching of first gradetruly has been a COGNAC moment for those of you who know about that metaphor
p.p.s. click here for a wonderful collection of mathematical poems and songs passed along to me from a friend in Virginia ... http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/jhhs/math/poetry/mathpoet.html

Roses are Red, Violets are blue ... 3.141592
PI is a number that is mighty fine ... 653589
Practice this often until it sticks ... 79323846
Practice when you swim since there's nothing else to do ... 26433832
Let no one ignorant of geometry enter this door 79502884
Numbers rule the universe, Pythagoras made the decree ... 1971693

Sir, I send a rhyme excelling (3.14159) 
Insacred truth and rigid spelling (265358) 
Numerical sprites elucidate (979) 
For me the lexicon's full weight (32846)    ... From ask Marilyn, 5/30/2004