“Adjunct City” by Dan Grossman

“Aeneas meets queen Dido” Gerard Hoet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Adjunct City

I checked out Livy’s From the Founding of the City
from the Marian University Library
after teaching my four sections of English 112.
Then I followed Aeneas to Allison Mansion 

for the “Day for Knights” happy hour.  
You could say James Allison
was to the Indy 500 what Aeneas was to Rome, 
but I didn’t say this to Marian President

Daniel Elsener as I drank my beer and ate 
my soft pretzels. As the crowd mingled 
I headed down to the bowels of the mansion—   

built in 1911—to piss. 1911 was the year 
of the first race, won at speeds I often reach on I-465
while plotting out a more linear career path.