Measurements

There is a difference between distance and the idea of distance.

The latter is an ideal unit which we agree to find meaningful..

The former is an impossibility, based on fluctuating standards,
set in relativity, whose identity might as well be zero, for all the meaning it has.

Nevertheless, we persist & in our persistence,
life is made workable and laughable
on analysis.

Such is the paradox of pragmatism.