14.1

(Supervision of Elections: General)

If the President of the United States overturns

an election if he overturns majority rule

if the President of the United States

overturns a teacup a hurricane if he

overturns Mexico and the division

of present from past if he railroads

a virus through the House if

the police cannot be depended upon

and the golden rule is rescinded

by executive order then the manual

is not a manual but a map found

in an attic the continents too

large too close or missing entirely

the shorelines garbled and

beset by serpents

4.5

(Training: Training Programs and Schedules)

The too-long-

didn’t-read version:

peacetime

is the training period

war is the performance.

My children

have never seen war.

It is also true

that they have never lived

without it.

1.5

(Introduction: The Chain of Command)

on the shores of an un-

familiar country

trust the impulse

for analogy

each

toeach

and else to elsewhere

to call the world an ocean is

an error

the world

is an island

and you are half ship-

wreck half siren