you can't possibly articulate
your good intentions
any better,
or beta-
test a plausible
explanation any longer,
or parse
and reparse the hard
data more often;
that's exactly
when there's a rupture—
the notion
of number suddenly
collapses.
Now, elaboration
is coming so easy
that prolixity cannot
possibly be the mission;
the quality
of the conversation
won't deepen either,
and even compounding
the interest is
meaningless
after your brain
has prolapsed
to that place where
adding
one more notion
to an ocean of others
no longer
counts as a
larger amount.
