SoH je brutus
Remember that line from Star Trek:
Time is the fire in which we burn
Christopher Plummer says it in bald cap
Klingon ridges making Alps across its surface
wab QoQ ghor HuvHa' chaH rur HIvje'
That's Klingon for "the sound of music breaks on them like glass"
It's funny
because it's about a different Christopher Plummer movie
At least we don't live in Ancient Rome:
276 was a leap year
that started itself on a Saturday
In June
and again in September
an Emperor died
It was all about money
Tacitus devalued the currency
Florianus is assassinated by his own men
Probus returns everything to how it was
But even Probus gets only 6 years before he dies in an October by blades he supposedly leads
SoH je brutus
The Alps on Plummer's face
on all of our faces
time draws topography on all of us
The sound of breathing rushes them like canyon walls
it crests and causes weather good and evil
makes us light ourselves on fire and lash outward at the ticking seconds around us
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