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While you’re busy with your changes,
Other things are changing.
Comparing changes is called time.

The changing is ineluctable.
The comparison is a strategy,
Maybe the best way to think of time.

Change accumulates and never
Undoes itself exactly, and the residue
Is sameness and information.

But now we’re lost. We know
What information is now, thanks
To Shannon and his many heirs

Both human and machine, but we don’t
Know what sameness is, nor what
Then constitutes the residue

Of change exactly. Excuse us
For being both banal and abstract.
It’s just that it seems like the other,

More important stuff for living,
Hunger and hunting and hurt,
Might have something to do with this.