Poem 1-What to do with the Body

O wise and prominent Republicans, or should I say "liberators"

(for truly by means of your swords you liberated Rome from such a tyranny)

What now? The body of that man lies warm now with your betrayal.

Should the river make it cold? That same river which sinners and traitors and criminals rest,

since Caesar was surely a criminal to Rome, was he not?

Or should his body be cast aside on the Via Apia like a corpse or a man devoid of any nobility.

Should a monument be erected in his honor to sit in the forum forever to recall the memories of a man so undeserving of such a monument?

(For then even death could not remove that man from your sights, o murders and followers.)

He should he be given the respect of a decent burial owed to him and by his family and his own soul.

But choose wisely, (o liberators of which I am unsure.)

Dispose of your criminal justly; and as you rally for a criminal's disposal consider this:

surely the same fate will await you as well.

Just as tyranny is a crime, murder is also, perhaps more, of a crime, is it not?

Your deeds will also be recalled upon your death, o liberators. For you took the life of another in betrayal of brotherhood.

Bear in mind this fact as you plead to discard his body in the river, for someday your bodies could swim lifeless next to his.