Lost in Wikiburbia

It starts out innocent enough. You need
to help your fifth grader write a report on ants
but soon you are following link after link
& you find yourself an hour later, alone at the screen
reading about John Wayne Gacy, the report
long since faded from your memory and that of your child
who gave up on you, now watching Spongebob.
So you look him up to learn the creator
was a marine biologist. That makes sense.
From there it's only a click to find out the guy
who voices Patrick is the actor who played Tom Cullen
on The Stand. "M-O-O-N. That spells Moon."
You tell yourself ten more minutes because you forgot
that one actor from 16 Candles (not Anthony Michael Hall,
but the guy who played Jake Ryan) gave up acting
to become a woodworker. And who was it
that wrote and directed Harold & Maud? It's all
coming back to you now, all those questions you had
when you were a kid. Getting Serious, you want to see
what people have to say about JFK's assassination
or if George Washington really did have wooden teeth.
If you're not careful, you will be reading all night
about this president or remembering you read
how Rosalynn Carter once posed for a picture
with then unknown serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Now you are thinking about Carl Jung, synchronicity,
how everything is connected deeper than we know,
our whole life a mere glimpse of the vast unconscious.

Before Jung, you learn, Heraclites spoke of unity.

How all things are one, and this, this place must be

some vast network of rivers, flowing into the ocean.
Yes. No. Perhaps. It's a quantum universe,
this world of Wikipedia, everything connected.

It is the world's biggest Schrödinger Cat experiment,

where you can find the answer to both possible fates.