Eat the Apparatus

No one knows what numbers mean,
In and of themselves, that is,
But it’s not that numbers can’t

Measure or don’t measure things
More or less accurately,
Not that meaning eludes you

Although you get frustrated
That you don’t know what numbers
Really, truly mean. They don’t

Really truly mean a thing.
You mean things and you can make
Meanings of so many things

That you can’t decide just which
Meanings your numbers should mean,
Which thing you were measuring,

And whatever you chose it won’t
Measure meaning. Imagine
Trying to count all meanings.