The Serpent and Cleopatra

- By Matias Merrifield

The queen of Egypt, in despair

Summoned the cobra from its lair

“Octavian’s armies are at my door

I shall soon feel the legions’ claw”

The Naja answered: “if you are dead

In the afterlife, there is wine and bread”

The female pharaoh pondered and wondered

As tumult from battle boiled and thundered

Cleopatra agreed a...

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