cold morning
fourth cup of coffee brewing
eight a.m.
© Rachel Green November 2025
On the Adoption of Foreign Nationals
Let us celebrate our country's patron saint
a Turkish soldier enlisted in the force
and personal guard for Diocletian, late
of the fallen Roman Empire. In due course
an order came to implement the law
demanding all the citizens to pay
their homage to the Roman Gods of yore
and make sacrifice on each god's naming day.
(Except for Jews, whom by decree exempt
because they followed not this new god, Christ)
the punishment for all those of dissent
was execution, which our lad George decried.
The Diocletianic Persecution came
with George declared a martyr in their game.
© Rachel Green November 2025
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