Caesar: A Sestina

Kate M

 

“Beware the Ides of March,”

she said.  I shall be safe,”  laughed Caesar.

“though the people view me as a king,

a total brute,

one such as Brutus

who would not let me get stabbed

 

Me. Yes, what a foul thought.  Stabbed!

Me!” On the fifteenth of March.

Brutus

Will protect me. For if I die, I die, and I cannot change fate.”  Caesar,

made a great mistake, that brute,

when he proclaimed himself dictator of life, the dreaded king.

 

Yes, king!

Many would willingly stab

to free themselves from him, a brute.

In the middle of March,

Caesar

will die at the hand of Brutus,

 

his friend, Brutus!

 For the desire of becoming king,

Caesar

died. Stabbed.

On the Ides of March.

Et tu Brute?”,

 

were the brute’s

last words, to Brutus.

On the fifteenth of March

to be king,

he sacrificed all.  Only to be stabbed,

The great Caesar.

 

“Caesar!

Dead! What a happy day, to be rid of that brute!

May the gods bless he who stabbed

him. Who did?”  “Many people, but Brutus!

Who he trusted above all, in his fight to be king.”

That day in March.

 

 

Rejoice!  This day in March, for the great Caesar, is dead.

For the sake of freedom over kingship, he spoke “Et tu Brute?”

By Brutus he was stabbed.  Only to be taken over by Augustus, one as foul as the great

conqueror.

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