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I, too, sent her a message;: I, too, sent her a message; no reply, alas.

I take it that this poem is a: I take it that this poem is a commentary on people's inability to handle disagreement in a rational manner ,rather than your personal desire to be irrational.    A possible solution for any person who sees "a-holes" everywhere: If you don't want to see so many a-holes, shut off the screens and throw out the papers/magazines that like to show naked asses ; )   We all get mooned, sometimes, though, even when we don't want to.    

One of the great flaws of: One of the great flaws of humanity, probably since two naked knuckleheads put on animal skins to be evicted from Eden, is the tendency to label---persons, ethnic groups, beliefs, and preferences.  Yet the labeler gains nothing, and the labeled lose nothing, provided the label remains verbal and does not become an assault.  

Thank you, Sir, and I agree: Thank you, Sir, and I agree exactly.  Both Octavian and Herod were, basically, usurpers---both obsessed with retaining supreme power within their families, and both driven to express that power openly with enormous building projects that nearly bankrupted the economy of the Roman Empire.  (The tax enrollment that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, where Jesus was subsequently born, was instituted by Octavian---who, by that time, was called Augustus---to refill the empty treasury that he had spent on architecture, both in Rome and through the provinces.)  Octavian supposedly murdered Kaisarion (although he could never produce the body) because Kaisarion had the better claim to the Roman imperium; and, of course, Herod attemped to kill Christ, who had, has, and always will have the ultimate throne from which to reign and rule.    By way of historical coincidence, although the Apostle Saint Paul was the first Scriptural writer to call Christ the King Of Kings (in 1 Timothy 6:15), Kaisarion was given that same title (about a century prior to Paul's writings) by his stepfather, Mark Antony.

Advice taken. Trash in, trash: Advice taken. Trash in, trash out. Trash out foul odour out.

Thank you so much.  This week: Thank you so much.  This week has been very serene, as I look at, and plan for, a sequence of poems in a style that is new to my work, but seems to have been in the making since I first aspired to poetry decades ago.  I think I still have a bit left in me.

Thank you for taking the time to read my poem.: Thank you for taking the time to read my poem. I am very honoured that you view my writing to a standard worthy of such an Author as Robert Aickman. This poem represents the daily struggles that I am sure a lot of people face as I do myself. We all have inner demons.  All of my writings come from first-hand experience, so once again thank you for taking the time to read them!