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The Trees (From a line by Patrick Traveler)*
The trees conspire in secrecy
like senators waiting for Caesar.
There's Cassius, withered through winter,
there's Casca, sharpening a splinter,
that aloof, by-proxy malfeasor
is Cicero in leafy hypocrisy,
all waiting since they were cotyledons
nestled within the seed
in patient hunger, like smilodons,
for Caesar to bleed.
Though no Caesar of trees will walk their way
because trees can't walk, they heard one say
that Birnam wood to Dunsinane did move,
and that is sufficient to prove
their tyrant might show up one day
and get what his actions behoove.
*https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-27305-post-280808.html#pid280808
The trees conspire in secrecy
like senators waiting for Caesar.
There's Cassius, withered through winter,
there's Casca, sharpening a splinter,
that aloof, by-proxy malfeasor
is Cicero in leafy hypocrisy,
all waiting since they were cotyledons
nestled within the seed
in patient hunger, like smilodons,
for Caesar to bleed.
Though no Caesar of trees will walk their way
because trees can't walk, they heard one say
that Birnam wood to Dunsinane did move,
and that is sufficient to prove
their tyrant might show up one day
and get what his actions behoove.
*https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-27305-post-280808.html#pid280808