Tuesday, 17 April 2012

The Destroyer (Oh!)


With an SPQR turn of your head

From the far shore of the table

Your destroyer set sail[1].


Across the ranks of my old dreams

two classical murmurs spread:

"Oh!" et "Doom!"




[1] Funny - just about then

Marcus Porcius recalled

His teenage kicks:


*She mustn't be left alone,

The subtle proud menace;

She must be taken.

Oh...


*[Furthermore, I think ...]