If
you laid out all the limbs from the Civil War hospital
in Washington they would encircle the White House seven times.
Alaska cost two cents per acre net and when Seward
slept lightly he talked to his wife about ice.
My heart
is
Grant's for his bottle a day and
his
foul mouth,
his
wife that weighed over five hundred pounds.
A hundred years later Walt Whitman often still
walks the length of the Potomac and on the water.
A child now sees
it
as a place for funerals and bags
of components beneath the senators' heads.
