Ode to Remus

 

What is it to sup upon the teat of wolf mother?

When decadence can be heard in the burning plays

Two brothers fight, for each has their druthers

Until even the Son loses its rays

 

The feral children never knew Nero’s tune

Or a question uttered sopped with betrayal

For Caesar never lived to bittersweet June

And Aeneas had lost the storm in his sails

 

But the rivers of blood that spewed forth from the city

that never seemed to sleep on its own

Were nothing but a madman’s ditty

If compared to the monstrous seeds it had sown

 

Till then the feral newborns come dawdling home

What would have come if there never was a Rome?