as the locus of concern. 

Turn to the “beautiful” paired 

 

with the “abhorrent 

as I declare the Uncaused 

Cause of the First Cause 

 

perceives the “beautiful” as 

being a beneficial, 

 

pleasing trait whereas 

Its antithesis perceives 

the “abhorrent” as 

 

the positive means to rule 

over others’ forced despair. 

 

These are the extremes 

of polar opposites that 

aren’t actually 

 

the preponderance of Life’s 

immense complexity of 

 

human interplay. 

The individual fray 

from day to day starts 

 

with emerging egos from 

birth and each night’s deep sleep that 

follows Earth’s sweeping 

rhythms of heroes and their 

villains or blue skies 

 

and tornados, volcanoes 

and polar glaciers that stirs 

 

the mind to infer 

a world full of dynamic, 

random, chaotic 

 

meaninglessness were it not 

for human thought that brought us 

 

this compacted chart. 

Mathematics measures and 

plots positions but 

 

leaves decisions for other 

divisions of thought that ought 

 

to add emotions 

that offset logic’s sterile 

outlook to avoid 

 

the peril of pitiless, 

bestial acts that lack mercy.

Hence, mathematics 

can only measure levels 

of complexity 

 

but cannot assure the best, 

correct course from the rest, nor 

 

pick the exertion 

to employ because judgement 

calls are not its shtick. 

 

Mathematic’s extent 

can easily represent 

 

infinity’s broad 

realities which you need 

to see as avowed 

 

suffering, trauma and more

“evil-doings’ ” exertion 

 

on reality. 

The standard number line is 

just fine, at this time, 

 

to take note of the scale of 

magnitudes measuring the 

 

amplitudes of the 

various character traits 

that populate the 

 

middle of our  succinct, 

concrete chart, and please take note

 

of my revisions 

that will impart my final 

conclusions. Inside 

 

my parentheses is the 

‘n’ plus one that decrees the

 

positions marking 

the definition of a 

given quantity 

 

of one character trait marked 

on a sliding scale to be 

 

an infinity 

of possibility for 

one human being.

Chart by Ward Jarman

Add to this understanding 

the array of human traits 

 

and then, stand by the 

office door and wait for the

dismissal time’s rush 

 

toward the flush of sunshine on 

fall’s first middle school Friday. 

 

Scrutinize and note 

size and demeanor between 

6th and 8th graders. 

 

Three-year-change, astonishing ! 

The Complexity chart starts 

 

with two opposing

character types disclosing

the possible range

 

through which eight point three billion 

persons arrange their exchange

 

of their lessons learned 

and those they have discerned from

others’ quandaries

 

and the penalties received

for misdeeds that will lead to

 

perceiving that pure 

ignorance over naive 

innocence can’t be 

 

easily transformed and thus

can’t cultivate better states

 

more conducive toward 

the Uncaused Caused of the First 

Cause’s natural 

 

inclination to foster 

creations as opposed to 

 

full devastations. 

[Grace]

 

But Marlene, tornados and

super novae** speed                                                          

                                                                                                                             ** (no-vē)

rapidly to fling debris 

far away from what was once 

 

whole and functional.

 

[Marlene]

 

And we will experience 

the tense emotions 

 

of our own death as well 

as all the commotions that 

 

surround the sounds of 

loved ones lost, embossed with tears 

and imagined fears. 

In such throes, the mind forgets 

what Earth shows when humans have 

 

refused to reuse, 

recycle, reclaim, or show 

distain for proper 

 

waste removal. Such blatant 

approval has rendered Earth 

 

to become toxic. 

The natural harmony 

of organic mass 

 

is the primary function 

of decomposers that are 

 

the disposers of 

organic matter that’s had 

their function shattered.

 

Before burials, dead things’ 

elements were reabsorbed.

"Roadside Corpse" photo by Ward Jarman

Perhaps more may be 

explored but first let’s resume 

to consume this chart 

 

and be smart about what we 

may presume from that knowledge. 

 

Since the thesis of 

entering heaven is the 

given reward for 

 

living correctly, then the 

Uncaused Cause of the First Cause 

 

must be the being 

described on the chart’s left side. 

The antithesis 

 

being the opposition 

is Satan in hell.