Tag: rome

• The Roman Virtue

  Retiring the ancient laws tiresome to a tyrant If you can have Gaul, you can have it all Vaults and halls, curtain calls, purple all An end to paucity If I could only fix my grubby paws to it.

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  2nd Feb 2026

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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…

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  2nd Feb 2026

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• Out tonight seeing everything

  Flicking through the Picatrix half six triple six Glass filled with miraculous admix, mirabilis Mind a whorling Dervish Charybdis It’s like I’m in the temple, how many virgins I’m here to get my trix and I’m out, bouncing Vercingetorix footing it along the Styx, imprisoned year six Caesar’s edicts Gaul’s hauser housed by boughs once…

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  24th Jul 2024

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• Barbarian beastmode

  Dacians north of the Danube Art deserving, decorating Constantine’s Arch Marble marvels Patience of a manacle In the dense jungle, hearing Pan’s pipes Anarchy’s flageolet anthem of flagness nation Daos, the Phrygian wolf God Came from sun-blessed Persepolis West toward endurance and further hardiness Freezing frigid Fangorns fringes frostfingered, only madmen linger long Scornful Romans…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• Barbarians Walls Fucked

  Rome’s antient walls with faces emblazoned Names considered graffiti now famed signatures Progression of ages, processing gold to lead Ardent flames o’ersaw Empire’s best Symbols of better, nobler days Ladies myriad: wives, wardens, soldiers, goddesses, dryads All kinds world to fashion and fill: Wrenched breast-succour’d babes, thence to smother Overmothering Emperors into neurotic degeneracy. Poisoned…

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  17th Jul 2024

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