Forty Three

Numerically
Three seventeens
And two
Though seventeen less
Than three score
August Gettysburg
Can never remember
The address of that pizza
Place that cuts its circle
Into squares
Lafayette, more of an
Oblong, with an obelisk
In the background
Demanding that no numbers
Be random
That all components
Of this deeply caring universe
Make sense
Properly categorized
One going one beyond
The meaning of life