Addiction

One day, a mathematician
Came up with an explanation
And the proof for the prediction

Of prime number distribution
Through infinity forever,
And then no one had to figure

Whether a number would prove prime,
Not ever. Unfurling carpets
Of numbers unrolled glowing primes

Predictable as wallpaper.
And then? Some other puzzlement
Found itself newly important,

Once primes were nakedly defined.
Prediction knows no peace of mind.