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Summary Of Notes From A Senatorial Subcommittee, Rome, March 9th, 44BC
To dictate to Rome in perpetuity,
Caesar demanded; and then demmanded more---
unchecked, unlimited authority,
followed by a Senatorial decree
granting him eternal divinity.
The smirk on the face of that foreign whore,
on his arm, seemed like a street urchin's gloat.
Brutus said it was a gambler's power grab,
and that no galley so full of holes could float.
Still, Caesar must have thought he should take a stab
at it, and ask, and maybe cut his own throat.
I think future scholars of Rome's History
will view it as a ripened metaphor,
or at least a cautionary simile.
J-9thxciv
