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Young, unshod lovers---walking hand in hand;

faithful---pause (time to time) to share a kiss.
A fomer gladiator, by command

of Christ, has been ordained a presbyter

lately.  The streets are full of revelry

(and some of it, Sodom's perversity),

beneath the coming, cloudless, sultry night's

approach over Pompeii's emblazoned lights,

glowing, and nothing natural seems amiss.

But during the next day's complacent hours

(hungover heads snooze; businessmen confer),

Vesuvius will thrust its awesome powers

upward, its mouth spewing a conflagration---

lava, ash, smoke---in deadly combination.

Starward

[jlc]