reconciling improbabilities
there was an explosion
a single sonic boom
and then there was fire
a thousand years
is nothing
a thousand ten-fold
or one hundred times
a thousand times
it’s all the same
it’s impossible to go back
to the beginning
or is that a fallacy
an old wives’ tale
the elixirs & the medicine
celebrations of birth
coinciding with the bad
and the ugly
what could be much worse
the iterations
propelled by the sun
capable of producing
improbable uncertainties
like in the case of jacob’s dream
a ladder lowering itself
—the heavens high above
february two thousand twenty-three
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