Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction
Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction
The when, where, why of the last of Britain
is not easy to pinpoint exactly.
Perhaps it was Dudley Moore, the comic actor
and skilful musician, drunk, approaching
Princess Margaret at some exclusive do
and slurring, “Good evening, your royal highness.
I suppose a blow job is out of the question?”
Or the woman herself choosing not to be buried
with her peers, but cremated in Slough.
Possibly it was the Queen and her consort,
‘Senator Boethius is the last of the Romans whom Cato or Tully could have acknowledged as their countryman.’
Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
Dante and Beatrice saw Boethius –
the sixth century consul, chamberlain,
intellectual and family man –
in Paradise: one of the twelve shining lights
in the sun’s heavenly firmament,
along with Solomon and Aquinas.
Imprisoned in a tower for alleged treason
and under sentence of execution,
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