How Much Does This Resemble

How distant are the recent
Events compared to distant
Pasts? Can you expect distance

To expand? Something like that.
You’re rummaging, rummaging
Around in what’s happening,

Searching for clues, likenesses,
Changes you hadn’t spotted
In this past’s distance to that.

Something will happen. Something
Is always happening. What
Is happening? How are things

More or less like, more or less
Unlike, when nothing’s wholly
Alike, wholly changed? Shut up

And calculate. Don’t ask how
These differences can exist.
Measure and predict. That’s it.