We’ve had enough of you.
Be gone!

Look!
You’re not even logical any longer.

As long as a start can be made
one-two-three
there is no point where the end arises
where there is no next number.

So, go away.

Maybe, back in the dark days,
we needed a word for the sky’s height or the ocean’s depth,
but no more.

Now we know these things — or can aspire to know them.

We have no need for words that impede our imagination
by throwing up a silent screen.

We shall have measurement in feet or meters
quasars or photons
lightyears or strings.

So be gone infinity!

Our patience is not
endless
Shoo!

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Gary Lehmann is a writer, playwright and poet. He has worked with the Globe Theatre in London , the Smithsonian Institution, and a number of local museums including the Rochester Museum and Science Center , the Strong Museum , the Biloxi Cultural Center , and the Genesee Country Museum . Gary teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology as a professor of writing and poetry, and as the director of the Athenaeum Poetry Group, a consortium of published poets. He has been the Writer in Residence at Roberts Wesleyan College and is currently interested in exploring antique methods of making shoes. We here at Defenestration think that means he’s a gnome of some sort.