The Numbers Fail

January 22, 2020

In Newtonian Mechanics,

the future is the past

What lags behind, what sits ahead,

the Jester only laughs

A one for one relation,

its truth in bas-relief

The numbers hail, the numbers fail

—empirical deceit

(Villanova University: January, 2020)

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