fifty thousand leap from their seats cheering on the fight
rivulets of blood course across the sandy stadium floor
we celebrate the body and blood of Christ our Lord, amen
to chains drenched in the sweat of slavery for the Emperor
Tour Bus Lines filled with Japanese tourists filming the sites
without having to look at the thieving throngs
looting everything not bolted down, and then the bolts,
until the columns stand only by the grace of gravity
and only a shoemaker can make them whole again.
(Amazingly enough, an Italian shoe company is funding a restoration of the Coliseum, because all Italian women buy lots of shoes? I got onto this topic after reading poems written by Chinese poets...don't ask me the connection.)
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