Science Meets Poetry

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,

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.

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.

Self C++onfidence

#include

using namespace std;

class Average {

double mine = 9.0;

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

int egral = 2;

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,

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?

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