The Better Yet

Reproducible adaptations
With reliably useful results
Tend to be the kinds of inventions

Lineages cling to a long time.
Once upon a time, storytelling
Was such a wicked innovation,

Your ancestors thought it fit the whole
Cosmos, all mystery bespoke myth,
And you still haven’t let go of it.

Now, it’s numbers and mathematics.
They’re so powerful, so predictive,
The true language of the universe.

God knows, statistics out-predict myths.
But that may not be the end of it.
Out there lie descriptors better yet.