A pretty Midwesterner on vacation, exploring
Venice for the first time 

A handsome poet, her photographs
shot by another less famous poet 

An ad for learning a foreign language

A friend whose house got destroyed
by a foreign missile last night

An ad for pizza delivery

A friend whose account’s in a coma—
she fell in a coma

last week while trying to order pizza
last words on her mind, probably

“cheese, pepperoni, olives”

Not “war,” not “rocket”  

An ad for “rocket”