Saturday, April 27, 2024

Astronomically Complex Inside

Could someone set the learning
Algorithms to learning
The terms of the old debate

Whether it’s better to have
Loved and lost than to have not
Ever loved at all? Train them

And their inscrutable paths
On that conundrum, or pose
The more Biblical version,

Whether, given suffering,
It would be better to be
The stillborn than the rich man

Who has no joy in his wealth,
Inevitably losing,
To death, at the best, it all?

To have been formed in darkness
And departed in darkness
While never aware at all—

Does zero in the balance
Outweigh wild variations
Positive and negative?

You wonder if stars could know,
But for all their long fury
Have they lived? You don’t think so.

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