UNTO CAESAR
and what, friend,
is due unto
Caesar
both to Julius
and Caligula as well?
.
Oh that search for the exact
shade of authority
far
side of red
near side of purple
get that spot on
and all that public gold
and every marble structure
is yours by
virtue of the unquestionable
Imperial logic
of becoming
the very person
and embodiment of
the State itself
whereupon
what else is left but
for divinity to beckon
and right
to crucify the Earth itself
what
beyond death the ultimate debt?
.
poems 2 die for 