Month: Jun 2024

• Propaganda Prior to Actium

  Octavian the reverenced, not yet August Hush descends when he ascends the eagle pulpit, eagle blood pumping Dilating pupils highlighting pool blue eyes, perfumes lies: “Octavia sports roots Roman as Remus Her blood follows regal routes teeming with Romulean energy Her ancestors all conquerors whom fettered Gauls with palsy-blue tattoo coverings were brought to grovel…

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• Rolling Crown 

  Sons dethrone fathers Slathering over thrones Would not trust, throw further Testing on unregal heads the crown’s width.

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• Nimrod Takes Advice in a Thicket

  Sarcastic mass delivered in a thicket, like an unexpected infant A wicked defrocked priest defiles hosts Summoning evil ghosts who talk of coming flood Of drummonds struck as signals in Heaven, heard throughout the Levant Nimrod speaks, “I will smite God, drag him down to Earth and have him live among my starving bitches Carving…

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• Nights Before Actium

  Before Actium in Egypt Fifteen years purgatory for Marc Antony, among bird-headed statuary Drinking whilst playing kingly chance games, discipline eroding steadily  Telling his men they must continue trusting him unto triumph “Jupiter will smite their ships, Set having sewn confusion among them We will feed them to the Nile, Sobek thence casts judgement Fear…

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• Smashed at Actium

  Gold much in Egypt Gods older than the foam which drank Atlantis Arch fantasist whose phantom hand called up every flower He toward whom all followers tend eventually Ear lender whose housing lobes empathic eternal paternal tenderness At disposal every power, every rotad hour known to he Oldest When ceaseless cleansing rains started, the heart…

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