Sign says 90 degrees longitude,
¼ way west around the world.
Accustomed to mile markers
that tell me nothing but how far
I am from one border or another,
I want to say that depends –
as so much does — on
where your journey began
and ask why
on earth
a roadside sign
on an Eisenhower Interstate
on the western edge of Illinois
would assume that every
journey of every passerby
started in South London.
