Big and Long

The commerical on PBS (for PBS)
says the universe has no edge and
no center, and I can accept this, I suppose,
as I accept the fact that those
three hariy lobes I see drawn out on computer
paper (by the computer) are, in fact,
composed of a line infinitely long
(the Mandelbrot set)

I was taught to believe that
the universe is infinitely large, and always
thought that if that were true then every-
thing must exist somewhere, though
I may have picked that up
some place (Douglas Adams) but I
still think it's true. And I
wonder sometimes if somewhere in that
set, traced out along that infinite line,
my face, self-similar: two ears
and a chin.

It must be,
we all exist somewhere, in the universe,
in that line, and sometimes I wonder
what it means that the one infinity
(mandelbrot set) is contained within the
other (universe), and that here I sit,
contemplating it all, another infinity
(me), and what if someone is watching the one
infinity (universe) like we're watching
the other (set).

Sit and wonder,
Wonder and sit,
What else can a body do?

What else can a body do?