Napoleon, film, Joaquim Phoenix, poem, poetry, Leo

BONEY

I apologize
for not having watched
your film yet
(hope it will
be as
good as Gladiator
in which you
played an
entirely
different character)

my supreme Leo commander!

let me kick this off directly
by telling you
how
much I love that hat
would
(if indeed I had one)
surrender
my Empire
for that hat

which to me seems so solar
to
proclaim you
as Helios himsrlf

on top of your head on entire
solar hemisphere
(rising,
setting)

of course, the hemisphere
below supplied
by the bottom
of your
now
my
gigantic head

Empire for your bicorne
hat
being
our fair trade

nothing could be nore
Napoleonic

be about continuaton
of your legacy

not even
ten ghousand
YouTube videos on

your rise
to power, sweet
Josephine

and the utter tactical
brilliance of
Austerlitz itself

than me
wearing that bicorne bonnet
en bataille