From Homer

 

What is real? Decomposing

a sphere into a finite number

of non-measurable sets, birds

experimenting after rain, the 1st

 

time you touch something

since putting it away 5 years ago,

recidivism in love, the borrowed

corner where you eat your apple

 

and throw it out. Cantatas

by Rimsky-Korsakov, the road noise,

six petals in conversation

on the surface of the pond

 

whose biodiversity

diminishes, each year

 

 

Tested and Found Correct

 

Do you always eventually lose

at Missile Command, yes, it gets harder

until all your cities are destroyed

and you only have a finite number of

missiles, which is different from

the game’s original design wherein

you had railroads that if you protected them

would supply you with more missiles.

The developers decided that was too

complicated, so instead your supply

withers and is eventually outpaced

like green growth by gray or

fresh water replenishment by datacenters or

imagination by devices that despise it