Things None and Some

There’s none or there’s some.
But there’s not none, not
At all. None is just
A thought to be known,
A near thing to null.

Or it’s not. The trick
Is to see the chance
Of none, not the fact,
Or the fact as name,
Since none means no fact.

In chance there’s a line,
Sharp as break of day
On a sea in drought—
There’s some chance or none.
Low chance is not none.

One child is a chance.
No child is none. Some
Have lots, but lots cast
All fall some more or
None. No lot means none.

The null is as real
As the thought of it,
As the math of it.
But once the day breaks
Where’s the none in it?