Predictability

We try to find consistency and inevitability in the most interesting places.

Yesterday the internet was out

All day

As if to say

I know the Comcast person

Arrives on Monday

To change our provider.

No one likes change.

No thing likes change.

Still change comes

Irregularly,

Inevitably.

Yesterday we think we caught

The last mouse,

Released him in the same place

As the other two,

Watched as he climbed a tree

To our face level,

Then scrambled down

To find the other two.

Today all four traps

Were empty.

Perhaps we caught the last mouse.

Perhaps not.

Today the internet works consistently.

The Comcast person is due to arrive

Any minute.