Whatever Is Left

Take Erdös over Holmes—
You don’t eliminate
the impossible, you

Choose at random, and
If the chance that you’ll find
What you’re looking for is

Greater than zero, then
What you’re looking for must
Exist. Composition

Conducted at random
Is value-limited,
But relentlessness spritzed

With randomness, over
Enough iterations,
May pay off as a search.

It helps, of course, to know
Just what you’re looking for,
But even if you don’t,

The idea is to make
So many candidates
That later, on review,

What you were looking for
Will, > 0,
Turn up, staring at you.

Pray it does, so you don’t
Surrender wondering
Whether this must be true.