Tennis

Who would have thought,

just after the big bang

you would get tennis and

tennis players, their girlfriends

and grass, so well behaved,

the ball, going in one direction

one second, then in the other

the next.

There was no plan back then,

the cookie just crumbled.

There are plenty of plans now;

like tennis they come from

no plans being made at the start;

not extensions of an original intent

but what happens when there is

no intent.

Why it went this way and not that,

why we have tennis not something else,

what was particular about that detonation?

It looks to us like there was a plan;

tennis looks like design not accident,

we see it through a neat and tidy screen

when really it is eggs braking

in an earthquake.