What Else Can Words Try to Be?

A then B or B then A,
Each branch then summed yields a spread

In which cause went both ways, which
Is to say, weren’t caused at all.

It’s a fact the names you use
In a case like this must be

Strict to the point of true proofs,
But that’s math, one kind of name.

What you might want to note here
Is not the type of names used,

Not how they got here, and not
The rules to make and test them,

But just, for now, what these names
Just said: things can be, can be

Done, can be named, can be proved
To be that lack cause. Such things

As that need words not just strict
But new, past if then, past true.