Go Figure

Best one can figure

there are but two ways

word can figure world.

Radical order:

determinism;

or uncertainty.

Evidence for both

abounds, abiding

by rules we either

do find or impose

depending on our

refined points of view.

The story we tell

ourselves is likely

full of surprises.

This includes the sense

that utter nonsense

is ruled out by the

presence of our brain,

and perfect order,

by the same token.

After all, we can

stand disorder but

only for so long.

I figure the best

story we can tell

has not yet been told

nor will it, ever—

but of course that, too, 

is a point of view.

We will keep trying
till we run out of 
words to figure worlds.