Future Tense
Mostly, I’m hoping
Some of this will lie around
Like Claudius’s second copy
According to the novel
To be found under an urn
Behind a shelf that no one sought
To look (behind)
For ages
That dusting off
(however that’s done
with electrons)
There will be some words
From someone we didn’t know
Maybe some initials,
Half a word for clues
We’ll read
And have two sets of wondering:
What was this person saying then?
What is this person saying now?
The first we’ll most likely
Never know
The second will be up to us
We own the words, now
C L Couch
(I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves)
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