The first encounter with infinity
Was as an unfamiliar word intoned
On a black-&-white hospital TV.
A solemn male voice recited five terms
Man, woman, birth, death, infinity, while
A hand wrote their symbols on a chalkboard.
The child in the hospital bed knew four
Of the words, if puzzled by their symbols.
The cross of Jesus was more than just death.
It was on all the Bibles and hymnals.
But the last word was completely baffling.
The child scrutinized its symbol closely.
It looked like the number eight on its side.
No adult explained well what the word meant.
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