unto caesar
is it lawful
they asked him
to pay taxes to the emperor
and him a nobody
a boy from no one
a debtor’s child
resolved to know nothing
of imperial
monetary policy
knowing only kingdom
absent in captivity
shrugged
as if to say
fuck if I know
it’s his picture on the money
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Nicely done.
Excellent