The Splitting Whole

Or is it all in the weird sense

That sameness is only same

When it’s perfectly the same,

Whereas any difference

Means it’s truly different?

What is true of perception

Never turns out to be true

In a wider perspective—

Nor a more microscopic.

If you could delineate

Exactly how difference

Differs from the same, the same

That is, in some exact way,

Undifferentiated,

Then you might could get somewhere.

Think of this, the next report

Of some breakthrough in quantum

Theorizing about waves.

Depicted in equations,

The paradoxes acquire

Handsome sophistication

At least down to their bottoms

Where things get ugly again.

How can we say anything,

When we can’t compare what was

Then to was just now without

Firm then for comparison?