"the uncontrolled element of life"*
the tap tap tapping continues. i can
not make it stop. i became numb to
it today. forgot it - until right now
how if it was a clock it would warn
to go home. but the traffic stops me
why go now. why not wait till it all
dissipates. enjoy the tapping of the pane
imagine stories it tells in morse - if
only i knew math and numbers well
a fractal geometry is what will be our
legacy: a self similarity me and that
red cardinal are: he taps on panes
i on keys. his will last till his life
ebbs: mine will last till a truthful
measurement of my life is had . . .
*Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness: Archived 14 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine. ted.com (February 2010)
