Anyhow in a Corner

We need Eric Adams to succeed
as mayor because he’s mayor at this time,
heuristic method of self-same paradigm—
I AM, as Yahweh, Popeye both decreed:
born of birthlessness, I antecede
myself, by being supersede the crime
and/or the crimes which creep, and creeping climb
the Gracie basement like a millipede,
its feathered legs in strange coordination,
marvel that so few nerves could make it walk
serenely till the light! the falling shoe!
the crunch! Once-vaunted future of the voting nation
squished before it could evolve and talk,
and yet . . . it made its wings in wax, and flew.