from Travels
8/17/2009
By Me
He lies dead on the floor after the senate
Has their way with the emperor. Shakespeare
Erroneously recounts the mere, ear
Line, tale. The self-empowering death threat
Was Taken at Lagos. Travels to present
Tense show only fractions of what was then here.
Their kingdom was not spared much like Lear’s.
This, a collection of dubious debt?
Hardly! It was an auto-annihilation,
The old left in fancy devastation.
History, art, culture does not fall alone
Disdainful pillaging sets a new tone;
One followed by the ruling religion,
Placed by Constantine in the rich less region.
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