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Jason Lyle
Senior Member

since 2003-02-07

Posts 1438
With my darkling

0 posted 2003-03-24 07:38 AM

Waiting, he sat on his curule chair
Wrapped in Tryian purple
Surrounded by his lictors
With axes in thier fasces

And your report, praetor?
It was as you said it would be
Mesopotamia refuses tribute
I gave them 48 hours to go into exile

As you commanded

The young praetor flinched
He knew what was coming
The great mans tantrums
Were famous

Muster the legions!
We march for the Euphrates
At daybreak, why must they test me Ari?
Why do they force me to force our glory
Upon the entire world, do they not understand power?
For I swear by all that is right
They will know power, they will know fear!
And after they are defeated
As slaves, I will sell every last one of them
To the coke machine

[This message has been edited by Jason Lyle (03-24-2003 07:38 AM).]

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

1 posted 2003-03-24 08:23 AM

God - this is intense - perfectly put , my friend - you see - a true poet indeed xxoo

btw the coke machines - that was the punch!

[This message has been edited by littlewing (03-24-2003 08:24 AM).]

MARK V SHELDON
Member Elite

since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

2 posted 2003-03-24 11:53 AM

Provoking symbolism. Enjoyed.

-MVS

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wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

3 posted 2003-03-24 02:51 PM

Geez, one could say that this would be "Shocconaw"

And? Don't ya just love the word "lictors?

[This message has been edited by wranx (03-24-2003 02:52 PM).]

Jason Lyle
Senior Member

since 2003-02-07

Posts 1438
With my darkling

4 posted 2003-03-24 03:32 PM

I agree with our being thier, politics suck, but the way we went about smacks of an empire, and what better example than rome?
Jason

[This message has been edited by Jason Lyle (03-24-2003 03:39 PM).]

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

5 posted 2003-03-24 03:47 PM

LOL, shaking my head as I envision toy battlefield soldiers marching towards that proverbial cocoa cola machine. BTW, COKE really sucks. (my opinion)
God, how I wish we'd learn not to play this battlefield game anymore.

Gina Culliney
Member

since 2003-03-08

Posts 170

6 posted 2003-03-25 08:59 PM

so Rome lives again and serves as the sacrosanct after all.

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