“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” Spicer said, contradicting all available data. ~ CNN News, 21 January 2017
Over how many
islands
are you king?
This is a joke,
so don’t try
too earnestly
to answer.
However, today,
thousands upon
hundreds of thousands
of women marched
in cities around
the world—
On the grass,
through the mall,
over bridges,
on freeways,
passing laundromats
& bakeries,
cafes, clinics,
corner tiendas
where other men
& women worked
and served so we
could walk,
bearing signs
like Hate
Won’t Make Us
Great & Who
Run the World?
& Equality
is for Everyone.
Where we stood
by the pillars
of the museum,
we could see
the copper glint
of a drone’s
hovering body,
taking aerial
photographs &
counting,
counting. One
answer
to the joke:
It depends
on whether it is low
tide or high tide.