Tag: rome
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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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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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War’s Gnawing Worms Chewing Worldroots
Cavalry saddled, dappled flanks foam lathered Rattling at their sallying, fracturing gatling action Cleopatra’s fleet abandons field at Actium, ending the team. Teeming with corpses, sunrise orpiment solifies creamy pinttop waves bloodfoamed Octavian, having smashed Marc Antony’s maritime armies, consolidates Pheasant-fletched arrows along a dead soldier’s ridge like fangs in a fine-toothed comb.
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PAPAL EMISSARY
Church of many pedestals hosts many predatory pederasts Rapey papists flock like ants to heathen lands Pounce at any chance to have them renounce names of revered now-deified ancestors They are the Romans to whom all roads lead, colossus larger than ere stood at Rhodes, and theirs is the power of deicide Inside the dome of…
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Violent Death of a Corn King
He is seized by seizure, his sense censured by tremoring His voice tremoloing cries help, loathe the fallen triumvirate Caesar must be assassinated Insinuate his flank with vast slashes His wet sashes sanguinated, soaked in essence Horribly unpleasant business, host of senators bent over him Runnels his heavy blood tunnels out across the senate Power’s…
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Automatonsure
A buzzing fly distracts your private grief How irksome and vexing Not vexing enough to stir you Silent, the nanotechnology scans and analyses your apartment Its sophisticated mind a dervish prayer of vectors Sigillike circuitboard alive with dragon energy, jolting the wires Reject the world like the Irish church rejected the roman haircut Ejectors injectors…