inexactitude

1
first full day of summer
the solstice
slides around
though it’s our calendars
you know

and the inexact nature
of the world
as is
and maybe as should be
as
you know
the foundation
of everything

our math is built on pi
our philosophy
inexactitude

uncertainty
plussed or minused
into everything

we cannot count
without
knowing there’s less or more
the rings of everything
aren’t worried
about the x and y and
z axes
shall work
in angling somehow
off other

they work
it works
we work
and that is
all we know
and all we really need to know

2
who came up with this
uncertainty
some might say
the devil
though I think it was
the Lord

everything
a thing
and everything in motion
all the time

we measure
we presume to stop the thing for
numbers
but the thing keeps moving
everything keeps moving

so what can we know
okay
okay
well
maybe enough
for jazz

here is the formula we made
plus or minus jazz

3
the glory
by the way
that jazz is

a syncopated tribute
to creation
in a day
of
twenty-three hours
fifty-six minutes
plus seconds
for change

or the day
of an age
say
the jazz age
or how about
a day
as in the day
of thunder-lizards
or the day
of Arthur
of Morgaine

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