31 July 2010

there are thirteen ways

there are thirteen ways of
looking at infinity and
half a dozen empty
beers on the counter to
days left behind and left
still to finish too
many things to see you who
laissez-faire so much you
who live with someone so
crazy but the
sun-fall on them
ship-bare shoulders there the sum
total of
arithmetic and
all truths.

7 comments:

sarachka said...

thirteen ways of looking at infinity: fantastic

Quitmoanez said...

nice!

Lorne Roberts said...

thanks, but wallace stevens just called from beyond the grave to claim that "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" came first. :)

sarachka said...

by coincidence, he also just called me and said that he likes to share, and likes the new direction.

Lorne Roberts said...

heh. nice.

cara said...

connections between truth and numbers are always interesting to me, from a methodological point of view our faith in numbers amazes me.

Lorne Roberts said...

yeah, me too.

partly intentionally, and partly not, numbers became a recurring theme here.

thirteen-- infinity-- 1/2 a dozen-- empty (i.e. zero)-- to days (two days)-- too/two many-- sum-- total-- arithmetic--.

but at the end i wrote "truths" and not "truth". which is quite different.