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Cry Caesar

(15 March)

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I could talk of Caesar

It’s his ides

He died

He was killed

It was awful

Stabbed by two dozen knives

Of senators conspiring

Some of whom were killed

Themselves

After trying to escape

Or trying to stage a coup d’etat

Ending the republic

Staging instead

The empire

That would live as long

As the republic

Then fall into philosophies

And artifacts

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Two millennia and some

We still talk about it

Assigned the play

We might be taking sides

Empire

Or dictator

Sadness all around

Without good sides

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There is a better way

That republic idea

Seeded in democracy

That might not be so bad

For nurturing

And flourishing

Say, starting on the sixteenth

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C L Couch

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