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The Death Of Vergil---A Poem That Features The Lurking, Shambling Do-Does-Did
Vergil did drop dead in Brundisium.
His epic, The Aeneid still had some
work to be done---ideas in his head
never transmitted when he went dead.
They built for him an elaborate tomb,
ordered by Augustus, who did presume
to order the epic published, although still flawed.
And when they did bury Vergil, other poets bawled.
Now they say the poem is subversive
against the Empire---in print or cursive,
in ancient eras, or in our own time
(now what should I write, to preserve the rhyme?
these rhyming poems are so bloody complex).
But one hard fact remains (no pun
intended, though it does seem rather fun),
that Vergil was really into gay sex.
Starward
