Chalk Marks On Slate

Childish scribble of clouds across blackboard
sky. Patterns seen when thinking about maths.
Almost cry when steps of long division
descend pages: Dark stairs into cellars
of confusion. As opposed to abstractions
of square roots of negative numbers;
neither plus nor minus, with duality
of dreams. Whereas, black and white
of binary asserts one add one equals ten,
to confirm and deny logic and common
sense. Learn to lie with statistics:
Purity of data spoilt by weight and skew
- until accumulation of information
assumes cosmic charms of Mandelbrot.
Iterations of chaos describe crowds
in motion / random branching of trees /
fractal sculpting of clouds. Rough drawn
sketches reveal underlying calculation.