Infinite Curves

One of the reasons
Prediction is so
Difficult is down
To how few events
Predict other ones—

The world is one sea,
One vast field of fields
Of waves, but the waves
Only rarely cross
And rarely effect

One the other ones.
It’s not connected
By cause and effect
As much as by slosh
And coincidence.

The waves in your head
May think hard on things
And find some patterns,
But they dissipate
And prove spurious.

Predictions do work
Enough to be worth
Pure concentration,
But this world of waves
Curls infinite curves.