Co-vid Confirmations

As my search terms change from top restaurants to flourless recipes,

from Skiplagged flights to book recs,

from pregames to board games,

we’re given the gift of time.

Sipping Coffee

Waking to the highways’ Doppler simulated waves,

the champagne shores reach a climax when I’m even with the engine.

The ambulance’s siren introduces a bursting cacophony,

Self C++onfidence

#include

using namespace std;

class Average {

double mine = 9.0;

string lives = “left until my ego is dead”;

int egral = 2;

standard deviation

Standard as in normal,

Normal as in common,

A deviation

From the norm or average.

But, when did standard become equated with excellence?

Bookshelves

The bookshelves methodically ordered with novels in an alphanumeric Congress-style.

Order, the opposite of the chaotic festering to skim the last pages of a reading that took countless battles between author and editor to compose.

Object Permanence

The fleeting wisp of sunshine pulsing through my deadly opaque skin.

An essence of virtuality and too abstract to be objectified.

It can’t be described by “is a” X.

Theory of Inorganic Evolution

Algorithms are ironically stochastic rhythms,

the hymns of the digital revolution,

AI’s not-so practical solution,

Intel’s silicon fusion,

Confidence Interval

The population is normally distributed;

yet we strive to surpass the limit,

to reject our alternative;

only to never reach the critical value of our hypothesis test,

per-cent-age

an accumulation of points,
our net worth measured per cent
with a present value totaled over the ages;
With expected values:
strictly positive or negative,
bounded by loss or gain;
multiplied by perfection,
a capitalistic drive
empowered by the forecast
and stifled by the moving average