The meter is running:
A measured stare,
A moment of reckoning.
I assay a smile.

The angle of her lips
Is well defined.
She responds to polite necessity;
Inside, she calculates.

A functional relationship:
Completeness and consistency,
One-to-one and onto,
We approach asymptotically.

A strange attractor:
Cycle and permutation,
We rationalize
And find a common denominator.

The radius of convergence
Tends to zero in the limit.
We postulate love;
The proof eludes us:

Unbounded, infeasible,
Too many degrees of freedom.
We exchange numbers,
But diverge unsatisfied.

Rejected hypothesis:
She weighs the merits
Of a false negative
Versus a false positive.

Singular and empty,
Rational, perhaps, but dense,
I take another random walk,
Regenerate and renew.