And so I wrote a poem

[Black Sunday9]

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[Black Sunday9]

oh and I guess the Otto Weininger line doesn't make any sense since he didn't exist in the time of Nero and Otho.

I suck.

Nevermind.

[Brenda Starrr]

That didn't suck! It has a nice rhythm to it.

[Dollardave]

I liked it bro. who is otto galba poppaea sabina Indulge my curiousity I know brutus and marc antony killed caeser hence the saying "et tu brtue" came about who are the rest tho.

I have never written a 'poem' before in my life.  I am sure this first attempt would fail any academic analysis and it's not even historically accurate (I am fully aware Otho's empire was never on fire).  I'm not sure why I felt the need to preface this but whatever, here it is:

nero and otho

from childhood friends to grown up adversaries, the trail of destiny and all that was meant to be

Left with Otto Weininger like theories, Confused as to if I'm Brutus or Marc Antony

For Poppaea Sabina is all that mattered, though Galba must be killed

Nero our friendship has been shattered, praetorian's reputation for stubborn will

Now only shame remains, without Poppaea as my wife

and my empire in flames, I must take my own life

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[Black Sunday9]

I liked it bro.  who is otto galba poppaea sabina Indulge my curiousity I know brutus and marc antony killed caeser hence the saying "et tu brtue" came about who are the rest tho.

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Thanks.

Nero and Ottho were Roman emperors, around the time of 65 AD or somewhere along those lines, they were both major fuck ups and both were conquered rather easily, though Ottho was less of a joke than Nero, Ottho tried. Both Nero and Ottho commited suicide.

Anyway they were friends as teenagers but there is specualtion that they had a falling out over Nero's girlfriend Poppaea Sabina (the most beautiful woman in rome), it was Nero's girlfriend but Ottho loved her more and Ottho treated her better. i guess the reference to Brutus is how it must feel to love someone but still feel like you are betraying someone else, but just because someone came first doesn't mean they were better.

After only 2 months of ruling Rome, Vitellius toppled Ottho and like I said, he killed himself.

[paradox]

nice

[Black Sunday9]

thank you pradox, thank you brenda, I still don't think it is 'good'.

I googled Ottho just to see if someone could explain it better than me and the very first link was great

http://otho.encyc.dyndns.dk/

"Otho

He appears first as one of the most reckless and extravagant of the young nobles who surrounded Nero. This friendship was brought to an end in 58 because of a woman. Poppea Sabina had been taken from her husband by Nero, in order to make her his mistress. Decency required her to be married and so the emperor gave her to his favourite Otho, convinced that there would come no trouble from this husband. But Otho fell in love with her and, when the time came, refused to send her to Nero. After threats and pleas of the emperor, the marriage was annulled and Otho sent as governor to the remote province of Lusitania. Otho remained in Lusitania for the next ten years, administrating the province with a moderation unusual at the time. When in 68 his neighbour Galba, the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, rose in revolt against Nero, Otho accompanied him to Rome. Resentment at the treatment he had received from Nero may have impelled him to this course, but to this motive was added before long that of personal ambition. Galba was childless and far advanced in years, and Otho, encouraged by the predictions of astrologers, aspired to succeed him. But in January 69 his hopes were dissipated by Galba's formal adoption of Lucius Calpurnius Piso, a man picked randomly in the morning audiences. Nothing remained for Otho but to strike a bold blow. Desperate as was the state of his finances, thanks to his previous extravagance, he found money to purchase the services of some twenty-three soldiers of the Praetorian Guard. "

[Guest MsMaldoror]

It's lovely.