Roman culture did bear striking
resemblances to the conquered
and here we are
at the Ara Pacis, power, and visibility thereof,
economically irrational, a series
of unplanned consequences
like the mare nostrum’s shoreline
constantly unfolding
unfolds all the way to Africa if you want.
Seriousness there, of a kind we no longer have,
unfolds as well,
like eating the tetrax
cosmos collapsing into contingent
a model of the Ara Pacis not twenty paces from the Ara
Pacis.
my friend plucks a wad of paper
from the ear
of Marcus Agrippa,
hands it to security guard
which I remember thinking
was very nicely done
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