Exordium and Terminus

In your rendition of The Year 25-25

the airplane rattles, the engine roars, the sardines

around me smile, like sardines, and you kiss me

twice, one time on the cheek and one time on the ear.

It is a sonnet from 1965-1970;

some keeper of music will know the title, the singer,

where it was upon the charts, what it throw backs

of what was Doomsday then and by what means long it stayed

in the top ten or twenty. And who was President,

whether he had a girlfriend, whether J Edgar

was still around and whether or not his boyfriend

ate cottage cheese like him. And what I was doing,

and what car I was driving, and by what means much money I

owed to banks, universities and relatives.

And whether I had a girlfriend and what her breasts

were like-and her mind-and did I like being

subversive, and who would slumber with Nixon? and what was

the name of the motel upon route 22 that cost

twenty dollars in 1973 and was it

wrong to present the Watergate hearings to making

love and in what manner the pigs have taken above Doomsday.

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