By The Numbers

 “If the system is consistent
it cannot be complete”:
it may start with the symbol
of maximum uncertainty
- zero, null, or nothing -
to you and me.

We count
1,2,3, 1,2,3 1,2,3,
one.

We choose waltz time,
our own 3:4
and overture the apocalypse
in 9:8
whose beats to the bar are these;

if Tarski has the right of it,
there is no truth
but that there is none.

We count, "1,2 1,2,"
"left, right left, right"
- onward Christ-less soldiers,
marching as before.

There are no facts,
that cannot be unproven,
no unambiguous rule
can exist.

We follow Wittgenstein
through paradoxes
into madness and oblivion.

Listen!
2-4-6-8:
the next in series
may be ten or sixteen,
or any number
that has ever been.

Looking inward at the numbers,
confusing maths with magic,
we will burn
as the ardent followers
of Pythagoras did.

We end,
we end in infinity:
a symbol of
maximum possibility.

Footnote: “If the system is consistent, it cannot be complete”: Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)