It's simple: prune away
the near-
limitless causes
and suddenly
the least conspicuous
becomes the most plausible.
For instance,
in order to measure the harms we've caused
verses those
we've incurred,
either
the good Lord
took our innocence
and in return,
gave us sons
and daughters;
or else,
increasingly high-level
security clearance
begot
ever more furious
computer virus coders;
or lastly—
and by far the least
fathomable of all—
evolutionary
pressure
hastened
the invention
of numbers.
