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On the Point of Vanishing

  • Writer: Richard Mather
    Richard Mather
  • Jul 26
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jul 28

Newton; fluxions and fluents

On the Point of Vanishing 

 


Cogito ergo ends with a sum  

beyond my reckoning:  

 

Thoughts add up  

and multiply  

exponentially like numbers.  

 

I must have miscalculated.  

It’s what happens  

 

when you cannot count  

on your own mind  

to make sense of the world.  

 

This time I’ll square the root -  

 

100,000 to 316 to 18 to 4 to 2 to 1.4 to 1.2 to 1.1 to 1 -  

 

and keep on subtracting 1 to 0.5 to 0.1 …  

 

I arrive at a bare fraction  

of a thought,  

a mere variable of an idea,  

a qualitative zero -  

 

a difference on the point of vanishing, the ghost  

of a departed quantity.  

 

If error goes to infinity,  

and peace tends towards zero,  

then it’s better to think almost nothing  

(in my estimation).  

 

 

 

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