2 I remember playing games with my father,
3 as a child. Who could say the largest number?
4 But he always foiled me, because he responded
5 not with numbers, but with procedures.
7 or my worst enemy, infinity.
9 When I look for you or try to comprehend you,
10 you flee from my grasp.
11 Some say that I should put up layers of abstraction--
12 that to manage complexity, some things
13 cannot be comprehended.
15 I see a curve, vertical on one infinite scale,
16 horizontal on another, and linear when both are
18 Infinity is everywhere--
19 a cold, a sneeze away, and never quite gone from the mind.
21 Try as I might, nothing changes.
22 Perhaps I should be satisfied with the mystery,
23 and rehash my thoughts on infinity again.