gershon hepner Cleopatra Poems

Did an asp kill Cleopatra,
commiting suicide like a shahid,
or was her death caused by a fatwa
Octavian ordered, killing her indeed,
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Attitudes to Cleopatra are draconian,
created by male chauvinists from Rome,
Perhaps we’ll find out from her catacomb
if she was African or Macdonian,
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Would Cleopatra have been shocked if
Octavius told her: “Call me Octave”?
If Cleo, known as Cleopatri,
had used a snake that had a battery
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