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Greater Than Infinity

  • matthewedlundmd
  • Feb 8, 2020
  • 1 min read

My infinity is bigger than yours

Infinitely larger, my friend declares

No, your infinity is sadly small bore

I hide bigger in dots of ink, I swear


Every infinity spawns a bigger set

Just as gravitons flash faster than light

Even slow photons pass your infinity, I’ll bet

Endless problems for your infinite night


Infinities of infinities, he derides

Not enough universal time for that

No more than a cube has infinite sides

I’ll take all your infinities and plunk them in my hat


Only because your universe is so tidily small

It compliments your mind, tiny as a bat

I could fit your math objects in a cosmic ball

Add equations and make a universe, just like that!


Then I’d make your integers into infinite dollars

Let you buy a billion periwinkles, infinite times more

Purchase a planet of platinum to forge shirt collars

If you’d find a bank to back the loan to pay the store


At that moment my friend’s head snaps apart

Its only source some stranger’s imagination

Bought on sale from a cart at Walmart

Cheap imitation of a flimsy rumination


Your universe is just a patch of information

No more real than your dreams come true

No more real than you, my fond creations

My infinities always larger than you

 
 
 

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