Mistakes Escape Any Pattern

Moderate randomness, according
To complexity theorists, works

Best, producing creativity
In a stable system. That sounds right,

Even somewhat Aristotelian,
But how can anything moderate

Qualify as random? Surprising,
Maybe, moderately surprising,

But that’s not an inherent feature.
A moderately random system

Isn’t anything random, is it?
Creativity isn’t random

So much as accidental, a few
Mistakes escaping any pattern.