I come to bury Caesar

[tsubame]

Why the heck did they let him speak, that's what I'd like to know . . . it was just dumb . . .

In honor of the ides of March! Which was in fact yesterday, but it's still the 15th in my native time zone, so this counts. A poem!

On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness, by Arthur Guiterman

The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.

The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.

The grizzly bear, whose potent hug,
Was feared by all, is now a rug.

Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf,
And I don't feel so well myself.

Comments

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

Most of what I know of that particular era of Roman history comes from Shakespeare, and that from an old black-and-white movie version I watched with my father, so I can't really say one way or the other. ;-)

As for comparing the US with Rome, it's certainly been done often enough . . .