Ozymandias

[dukealien]

Ozymandias

I laid down in my flower bed
but found nowhere to place my head.
Of course it mattered not,
for I was dead and soon would rot.


©2021 erthona

The idea of making l3 a foot short is interesting - saves the poem from regularity such as (please pardon another rewrite)

I lay down in my flower bed
but found nowhere to place my head.
Of course to me it mattered not,
for I was dead and soon would rot.

I was amused by the thought of Ozymandias the Great seeking a place to rest his "shattered visage" which had become separated from his trunk.  Presumably left where the level sands lie, not in the present garden.