Tag: history
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The death of Antinous
The retinues have filed out for the night With each subsequent wine, the whiny entitled Emperor chides His lover and mate for suggesting castration “So that further decay might be held at bay!” That higher registers he should maintain Until no brown remained in the Emperor’s mane, Gone the way of his eyes, the same…
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Glueless ascent
Cut my wrists before I write To see if my riskily brisk bleeding can outlast the market’s leading battery It’s an incredibly long fall from dominion and a credibly longer climb back; On that matter ask Lambert Simnel’s opinion. Rocks brokenbottle sharp gore-slathered, clad with glue-nibbed pinions I found at Grendel-tracked trenchbottom.
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Mankilling manual
Ruthful crusader, to slay dragons pregnant with stagnant flame And bold boar-faced jewels of Saxon make, and shield fragments, Which elsewise would have broken Before Billy the Bastard’s Domesday book ere opened, One must lure the beast from its cave to some open place At all times, one’s mount must be maintained In close, inside…
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Arx tarpeia Capitoli proxima
Went from sticking to margins to brazen open marches Through ancient triumphal arches, caged in marble Trajan’s heart As prelate, I shall commission incredible works of truthless art I intend to make harmfully rich the Eternal City’s every starving artist One by one, the slow-gathered darknesses are harnessed Virgo ascendant in the stars, ‘longside Mars…
Alchemisland 