1.     Napoleon met with Goethe to talk about Werther
2.     While she lay on her bed
3.     Certainly, it must have happened like this
4.     Anyone can do what has already been done
5.     There it is: the amber tankard
6.     The hypothetical lifts to his parched lips
7.     And yet everyone tends to it
8.     The unpolluted water and its ingredients
9.     The toilet bowl needs to be cleaned weekly
10.   The green sandstone is local to the region
11.   The edifices in the city
12.   That was firebombed are now “so pretty.” Just like before
13.   There was a hot air balloon
14.   Sponsored by an electricity provider
15.   Inflating, then taking flight
16.   And its onlookers so rapt at its fragility
17.   Everyone clapped when it floated off
18.   It became obvious our friend was embroiled in a property dispute
19.   With his own (pardon the expression) flesh and blood
20.   The chimney sweeper shook his consternated head
21.   When you were children you called each other pet names
22.   But everything worked out in the end
23.   Exonerating both to HAVE A NICE REST OF YOUR DAY
24.   In which she ruminated but could not floss
25.   She had been thoughtless, selfish and cruel
26.   She was recombinant on a pebbled beach by the Adriatic Sea
27.   Water is healing, so she waded shin-deep in it
28.   Marched around a rectangular pool like a stork
29.   The question was first if and then how she was able to change
30.   Then the shriveling plastic on the stovetop
31.   A concomitant fungus
32.   When self-scanning the red paprika
33.   She was asked if she still wanted it
34.   Apologized and said well no, not anymore
35.   And so it was retrieved to a plexiglass domain
36.   It was so appealing: to think it all might work out in the end
37.   Man I love a vista, she said, swinging from the citadel
38.   Where there was a swing set
39.   In some areas, it was a noxious, stinking weed
40.   In others, it was cultivated, harvested, dried, pulverized
41.   Soaked in a vat with ammoniac urine
42.   This led to the town's astonishing wealth, but also its decline
43.   Though in the possession of plenty of coins, she had none of the proper currency
44.   On her way home she gathered empirical knowledge
45.   Wondered at stains on the pavement
46.   Her onward progression through it
47.   As she stood in line to buy sandwiches and devour them on the meridian
48.   There was no way around but through traffic
49.   She kept the pencil after that: It was small and had no eraser
50.   In the letter she was a white petunia clutching a Bible to her chest
51.   A veneer of the past on whatever could shoulder it
52.   Paradigmatic alignment and apply it to the face
53.   As one would a chemical sunscreen
54.   Going on all protrusions, like a nose it is obvious
55.   In lieu of a better use of your wads of cash
56.   She and her mother, mulling in the caf (people gripping trays with couscous salads on them)
57.   A display reminding its readers potatoes were taken from the Americas
58.   And at the buffet: 9 Euro Salzkartoffeln. The next-best decision elided them
59.   A boat wedged in a channel, all its accruing costs
60.   Their intimacy bartered with, like a higher power, or a judge
61.   Same with their transgressions
62.   Whose judgment fell like a Douglas fir 
63.   A log cabin
64.   Therefore the treasures of the gospel are nets
65.   Nets with which one now fishes for the wealth of men
66.   Reifying the car's need of a wash
67.   A pleasurable jaunt through tinted soaps
68.   As my grandmother Nancy unwedged boat from the sandbar
69.   And clung to a branch to steady herself
70.   Some sweatshirts had large stains of blood
71.   There’s no way we’ll ever know
72.   I was a historical guide, but I explained it wrong
73.   It made no difference, then did
74.   Actually, the man breathlessly intervened
75.   There used to be bowling alleys here 
76.   But before that it was a castle
77.   That was the iteration they were going with now
78.   A politician said the city deserved to be “pretty”
79.   Especially in its famous islet
80.   And yet we find ourselves here today
81.   When they spotted a German Shepherd
82.   My American grandparents were quick to identify its nominal
83.   They got along with their counterparts
84.   If not for totally innocuous reasons
85.   It was the appearance of tolerance
86.   Now they're all dead
87.   So there to, Grandpa Ken would say
88.   His resignation
89.   To have resigned what was past
90.   As he hustled us into the red pickup to drive off from the sandbar
91.   Nancy stood out back and cued him left, right, left, right
92.   The chairs in which they sat have not disappeared but cleaved
93.   There is a kindergarten being built, where there was a blacksmithery
94.  
95.   The banister on the wall has detached for some reason