URBI ET ORBI. I WEAR LANCÔME.

Cloaca maxima. I roam.
Breathing ancient Rome
from the Forum.
Scanning the famous line
Versus Catiline.
My audience, Palatine
Feline, scan the rostrum.

Eloquence. Fatum.Loam.
Nailed to the rostra. As epitome.
O, tempora! Strata of stone.
Spoilt porphyry. Eternal Rome.

    Elena Malec, California 1997