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this one is about petrarch ascending mont ventoux and being confronted with a nightmare vision of all the non-romantic things about the roman empire (slavery, crucifying jesus, sack of jerusalem etc). back in the day he was a real poindexter and he would write these dork ass personal letters to classical poets from 1300 years ago like he was meeting them bill and ted style. and this is kind of me doing the same thing telling petrarch that his well-intentioned dream of reviving rome ends up being embraced by some pretty nasty guys. dont worry about rome man its all about florence now
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sunken ships in the bay bubble up
secret shame in a lukewarm sea of augustine's cum, augustine's cum
it looks fine from this far away
says a man from a family tree of hundreds of slaves, hundreds of slaves
he says legions fall into my arms
with rooster hats, ciceronian charms
rome is safe inside my heart
noble thugs killed rienzi's kin
so he set out and said
how bout we call them patricians again, patricians again
in the shadow of superior men
the pagan brutes who turned the temple loot
into circus and bread, it happened again
he says legions fall into my arms
with rooster hats, ciceronian charms
rome is safe inside my heart
don't give us soldiers in parade
you might have noticed that the past was bad for nerds
in the old days, in the old days
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