The Order Of Movement

Benjamin Harrison was mute

on a moot point to the thirty-eight

other states that came before,

 

but for thirty-nine and forty,

the memory of the mystery always remains,

 

but which is place constitutes

better living conditions?

 

they have the death penalty and

the brass to challenge Roe V. Wade,

and we don't,

 

they have beer and wine in their

C-stores and grocery stores among

the general array of items,

and we don't,

 

they have Mount Rushmore, the Badlands,

Wind Cave and Jewel Cave, and we have

Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the

Medora Musical, what do people see more of?

 

on the other hand,

we have the oil

and they don't have the fallout,

 

we have the Red River Valley,

and they have the Black Hills,

 

we have the number that's

three times the unlucky prime

and they have the number of days

that Jesus wandered through the desert,

so what's actually better?

 

The Valley each spring,

Bismarck and Minot last year,

defining the almost parallelogram's

prime factorization in terms of flooding

 

seems to me that Benjamin Harrison had

a premonition about this state's odyssey

and destiny all those years ago,

 

a moot point for thirty-nine others

but not for the state marked thirty-nine

in the order of movement,

 

and it sucks to be us