And Libraries Convert into Insects

There’s no metric outside of everything
With which to measure everything. It looks

As if everything’s different, unequal.
A variety of local metrics

Confirm this and use it as the basis
For reliable predictions. Who knows

That it’s not so, that it’s not exactly
As it seems? You don’t. We don’t. Could be so.

What you measure, you measure to predict
What will happen, thus what you will find next.

The better it works, the better the fit.
And yet. You’re a part of what you predict,

And there is no universal metric.
Stars can condense to the size of a speck,