Bootstrap Caligula Poem by Patti Masterman

Bootstrap Caligula

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Bootstrap Caligula
He sees the sun and runs
Pulled up by teeth on the bootstrap
Till his time's nearly done
Who made him emperor
Who told him he was god
Just another petty tyrant
Who's not really any good

Bootstrap Caligula
He aims well but never fires
Wonder where he thinks he's going
Don't think he can go much higher

Bootstrap Caligula
Says the signs are all up above
Wants to read the auguries
Blood from a bleeding dove
He wants immortality
To have his face cast in stone
But at the end of an empire
His kind will be swept along

Bootstrap Caligula
He aims well but never fires
Wonder where he thought he was going
Don't think he could get much higher

Bootstrap Caligula
They carried him off today
He could never get with the program
Somebody had to pay
Now he's another Messiah
A martyr to yesterday
Who once thought
The world owed him something

But every dog has it’s day

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