HE he watched the Parthenon crumble, "fuck the Greeks, they weren't humble." he primed Vesuvius to erupt, sifted the rubble on Bronx Charlotte St., campaigned on TV and was elected king, so be it. he smoked in bed, wore guns to bathe and sold rotten meat. he tightened the relief laws, during a recession, while munching on Federal surplus wheat. he poisoned the streams with PCBs; he goads the Russians with nukes and serviced Alexander the Great by spit-shining his boots. he brought measles-infected blankets to the Indians, took their land acid reigned the Appalachians it came, anon oil slicked Iraq and Iran, he designed sugar cane impoverished Puerto Rico he salted the sugar cane with plutonium roe and when our fingernails begin to glow, he invents devices to light from these new finger bulbs, connected to the Internet. he watched as Johnny got his gun, without pity shot snake eyes on Hiroshima, gambling in Atlantic City. he had us heat our homes with gas, then oil, then wood then without, on the icy road he took down the sign that said "Caution," he foreclosed a hundred family farms in South Bend but we wouldn't let him bid at auction. he cheerleads the lynchings, leans on the ropes, pushes John Cameron Swayze counsels everyone to vote. he treads lightly in the garden, "Please don't eat the daisies," and styled the straight jacket hospital behind the electric door marked "Crazies." he had aftershock orgasms when the crane fell on 57th St., that day