hoarding the easy life

warning: rome is buzzing

full of traffic and pickpockets

pickpockets licking their lips

traffic mosquitos on the move

tourist flock just like the pigeons 

in the piazza

clustered tours 

like bunches of juicy grapes

in the crush

wanting to find every scrap 

of ancient history

a slurry of roman memories mixed into a 

renaissance sauce

caesar walked right there 

in the forum 

and died right there

constantine won the war

replace the roman gods                                                         

with the christian god

with the swipe of a sword

and the blood of warriors

then built a monumental arch

a triumphant finger to 

those old gods

how could a thousand year empire

reduce to rock and cement

remains jagged caved in

like a modern dump

scattered hidden 

under twenty feet of modern rome

i suppose human folly is the simple answer

ego and the pathology of control

the pathology of accumulation

hoarding the easy life

i suppose its us