Three Poems
by An Anonymous Reader

                                            1.
                                            We live in a world of
                                            Superconductivity—
                                            Of cryotrons, masers, and diodes.
                                            In the Sunday paper is an article on
                                            The use of entropy for character recognition.

                                            Like the knowledge grows.
                                            More names for more facts, for more inventions,
                                            For new mysteries.
                                            The unsolved problems no one dreamed of last year,
                                            Urgent, demanding,
                                            Compound with interest
                                            To invalidate the old solutions.
                                            I sometimes fear that in the confusion
                                            Someone will take
                                            The one’s complement of Reality.

                                            2. Loop
                                            Another iteration.
                                            Once again the worn familiar path.
                                            Decisions made anew
                                            The outcome never changed.
                                            The endless round unbroken
                                            Until
                                            Cancelled
                                            For time.

                                            3. Decision Tree
                                            There is no diagram for life.
                                            We shift direction pseudo-randomly.
                                            Each new series of events
                                            Branches once again.
                                            Change follows change.
                                            Death merely
                                            Another discontinuity.

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