perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[sasha]

they say god made us
in his image...
I say
doesn't say much about god, does it?

every sunday
mom & dad would drag
me, karen, & brian to church
Catholic Mass
ancient traditions
whose meaning even time
had forgotten...

then I heard the music:
differential equations
planetary motion
wave functions
manifestations of an alien god
neither malevolent nor benign
caring nor spiteful...
just...
a grand clockmaker....

these mathematical runes
alerted me to its presence
but now I see it eveywhere...
in the winter moon
peeking up over the eastern horizon...
in the spider resting in its web
backlit against the morning sun...
in the comings and goings of habitats
over time...
and how such complexity can arise
from the simplest of rules

no golden palace
or grand ballroom
or towering effigies
erected by self-important little primates
can rival the wonders of the mundane
or match its luminous simplicity...
it transcends all language but that
of vectors, tensors, and Lie algebras...
and they can't make me weep
with joy