Burying Augustus

Burying Augustus

  On the day of this funeral,

which you guards surround 

amid much hazing by those 

  who witnessed or heard 

of other days when slavery 

  was still something fresh, 

  when a Caesar's slaying to 

some seemed vile, to others, 

most glorious, this burial you

guard of gone Octavian whose 

power hung too long and who's 

  given his clones much means 

  to rope our state, just needs

this fence of soldiers, to bury.

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