Pound Palimpsest

And then went down to the ship. Then

became Men’s Rights Activists,

set queer keel to breakers,

then played the $1.5 billion powerball

27 times and lost, sat down

in a daze of tickets feeling numb-

ers falling around us, then got confused

about apostrophes, divots in green

earth filling with blood, then established

domains like “Circe.com” and “Odysseus.org”

fighting for words among cybersquatters, then

voted for Donald Trump, quoting erroneously

from the Constitution, “a man of no fortune…”

“And I stepped back” “ill-starred”

“Lie quiet Divus,” “I mean”…

So that: