During a long class on trusts and estates
On October 3, 1974, I wrote
"Some moons cannot be trusted"
In dark, twisted letters in the margin
Of a crowded page otherwise devoted
To explaining the difference between
Inheritance per stirpes and per capita.
(Should you ask, I can still tell you
Why per stirpes sounds fair but isn't.)
What could the moon have done to me?
I wasn't, back then, the sort to badmouth
Orbiting scalene ellipsoids for no reason.
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