2011 -- 4.1 (Fall) Poetry

Significance

By: Rowe Lindsay Rowe

 

Today

I have been instructed

that certain numbers are “significant”

and certain numbers are not

when measuring,

weighing,

calculating,

or otherwise

quantifying existence.

 

Sometimes zero matters

and sometimes it does not,

so sometimes nothing is important;

and nothing

is something,

but nothing can also

just

be

nothing.

 

I occasionally am

(negative infinity – positive infinity)

but

I am

more often

0

and cannot tell if

I

am supposed to be

nothing

or

something.