To Caesar

i came to call it

Vox Dei

this ability

to write in a rhythm

that reprograms

the minds of anyone

and everyone

who reads

such lines

i enthral it

suggestion

cum mesmerism

cum semantic alchemy

blended in prose or poetry

in a thousand infinitesimal

symmetries

that work insidiously

to make the world

bend

to my will

people are obedient

people are malleable

to me

like words

you are

to me

like fatted words

plucked

and stuffed

and fit for a centrepiece

you know what i want

you always did

the march of ides

i’d

id

Rick Dove (c) 2016