Footnotes

Those actuarial ants,
they tug us down
to their mezzanine cellar,
back-stocked with labelled stacks
of noteworthy facts¹

^{1 and afterthoughts}

Those crass masters
of terse
and merciless detail,
submerged like inelegant royals
such as Prince John²

^{2 died of epilepsy 1919}

Those nano-distractors,
in point of factors,
their inferior complex
deep-wracked with biblio
mania³

^{3 see further below}

Those avid dusters
and uncorkers
of learned sources,
the Aeneid and Euclid,
and Ovid⁴

^{4 and Ibid}