When in Rome revisited

A Work in Progress 
6

 

 

The three men who ruled strode onto the dais

felon financier and famous for good fortune 

Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey the Great

we saw conjured

before our eyes slyly woven tissues of brazen lies

a new religion resisting definition

mass delusion manufactured by mercenaries

propelled through media 

by a man wanting to conquer Mars

standing next to a would-be Jupiter

an all-white triumvirate fostering fear

with fascist salutes

outrageous demands

a new kind of ism

many shades of truth

peddled by a felon financier and follower

not frightened of consequences when voters speak

intent on dictatorship

on imperial power

one mass produced bibles

acting as a god

another wanted Greenland given in gift

while the third ruled the Senate

distraction and deception ruled by rumor

popular people got paid for podcasts 

everything just a matter of opinion 

in a world where one of the nine 

slipped a trump card into the decision deck 

a get out of jail free card

for breaking the law what the heck

a reusable get-out-of-jail card

used to trump Jack Smith

overt legal power 

immunity

the shape of things to come

awake to the rule of kings

with divine right and then some

for lives can be made forfeit 

estates proscribed

just as was once described

by Sallust

in the time of Caesar’s adopted son

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