The Department of Impossible Coincidences

Coincidence report... Case number 888888... Status: Increasingly suspicious... Who keeps arranging These impossible coincidences? The same old song In a different town The same blue eyes In a different crowd Who keeps arranging These impossible coincidences? I call it chance But it keeps calling back I thought of someone I hadn't seen for years My phone rang twice And suddenly they were here The universe whistled And walked away COINCIDENCE LEVEL HIGHLY INCONVENIENT A book fell open On the page I needed most A stranger quoted The words I'd written in my notes The universe winked And changed the subject NO EVIDENCE OF PLANNING DETECTED Who keeps arranging These impossible coincidences? The same old song In a different town The same blue eyes In a different crowd Who keeps arranging These impossible coincidences? I call it chance But it keeps calling back The statisticians Say relax The philosophers Stroke their beards The poets smile And say perhaps The universe Has excellent timing again... again... again... what are the odds... what are the odds... what are the odds... Three different cities Three different years Three different roads Somehow led right here The universe shrugged And offered dessert PROBABILITY ERROR PLEASE TRY BELIEVING Maybe coincidence Is just a secret language Spoken by patterns We haven't learned yet Maybe the stars Keep folding reality Until strangers become stories And stories become home Who keeps arranging These impossible coincidences? The same old song In a different town The same blue eyes In a different crowd Who keeps arranging These impossible coincidences? I call it chance But it keeps calling back I call it luck It disagrees I call it random It laughs at me Who keeps arranging These impossible coincidences? Case status: Unresolved. Case status: Beautiful. © BStur - All rights reserved