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Spider web and sequence
by Jim Benz1. In human terms, concrete thought is unavoidably abstract.
2. Divergent thought has convergence as its ultimate goal.
3. 'Sequential' is a human equation based on abstraction.
4. Interconnection is everything, but perhaps no one else sees it.
5. Spider webs are ephemeral - they decay just as quickly as the interconnected ideas in my head.
6. They also start in the middle of things.
7. Presumably, this list doesn't know where to start.
6. So it returns to the end and tries to muddle things up.
5. At which point it becomes aware of its own abstract construction.
4. Every connection pointless and predictable.
3. Every sequence a linear mud.
2. There is no hope for convergence in a sequential universe.
1. If the terms 'thinker' and 'abstract' are interchangeable, do we still exist?
01/19/2009 Posted on 01/19/2009
Copyright © 2026 Jim Benz
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 01/19/09 at 11:34 PM Makes sense to me. I especially like number one. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 01/20/09 at 12:52 AM #4 for me, and lately #5, sigh.... Thanks, Jim. |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 01/20/09 at 02:30 PM One of the few list poems that I've ever been able to appreciate, well done Jim. I love the way it goes up and down the scale of numbers. And connection is everything however limited and unpredictable it may be. |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 01/21/09 at 06:00 PM Leave it to you to come into my day with this tango! |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 01/21/09 at 06:03 PM
2.Divergent thought has convergence as its ultimate goal.
I'll likely be in serious hermitude over this.
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