I had just finished

Documenting my worst fears

About my path-to-root technique

For finding shortest paths

Between network nodes

Even taking into account

Both common ancestors

And common descendents,

Some connecting paths

Can be missed

These are paths with bends,

Which I named zigzags

There wasn't much more

That I could do at this point

And it was time for lunch,

So I sighed and dined

As I ate I read more of

An AI Magazine article

About the first Turing Contest

In a transcript of

One of the interactions

Between a human and

A computer program,

The person says

"...I imagine whimsical conversation

Is like a series of knight's moves in chess --

Sort of zig-zag rather than

Following any particular line..."

An hour later I'm reading

Greenland's Take Back Plenty

And I come across the line

"...the image of the Frasque

Was being torn and frayed by

Zigzags of interference..."