Zero Dynasty

"Jokes are very mysterious."

The solution of an equation,
The fulcrum's balance, was as likely
To be nothing as anything

Else. Else, we would not have
Grown from arithmetic and geometry
To, well, whatever it is we know so

Well. Algebra myself am hell. Leibniz
Might, no, Borges might, nightly,
Have construed some sommelier

Such as could have gladly recanted
A fin du vin such as that. Don't
Misconscrew me, opined Charo,

Quoting Charon, quoting Zeno,
Quoting paradoxical Palermo
Stones, quoting Dynastic Zero.