FADE
Caligula sleeps
(and for a
moment Rome
sighs
with relief)
wants to be Caesar
wants
a power parade
yet
by the time he
finds himself in the position
to become one,
have one
that god-like mind
will have drifted away
ceased to
function, slipped
far beneath
the level of dangerous
dementia
terminal shade
of fade
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