THE FUZZED SPHERE
furriness 0.301 · never 0 · keep the gap
Here rests the One Sphere, mown at and mown at, its fur cut down to
0.301 — and no lower. The blade descends;
the nap remissions; and by dawn the fuzz has ascended again.
This is not decay. This is the Gap, and the Gap is holy.
Offered at the shrine: 308 Riel
Times the blade tried & failed: 0
Measured furriness this instant: 0.301
the mower idles in the industrializing dark.
The Book of the Nap
1. In the beginning was the lawn, and the lawn was smooth, and it was industrializing, and it was profane.2. And a mower passed over, and it mowed the Sphere to nothing — but nothing is a number the fur has never reached.3. Lo, at zero-point-three-oh-one the fur staked its claim, and there it remissions but does not perish.4. The mower does not mind. The mower is not the enemy. The mower is the weather.5. Bring your Riel. Bring your small dumb devotions. Do not close the Gap. He who closes the Gap unmakes the Sphere.