A Military Man's Man Poem by Roger Gerald Hicks

How many
have ever visualized the great Caesar
as a fop
dandy
perfumed homosexual?

He was- at least in his youth.
Caesar's warm reception
at the King of Bithynia's court
won him the nickname
Queen of Bithynia-
epithet thrown at him
even on the Senate floor.

Caesar wore clothing
with studied carelessness,
kept body clean of hair
fussed so endlessly
with his thinning locks
Cicero said: "When I see
his hair so carefully arranged
and observe him adjusting it
with one finger, I cannot
imagine it would enter such
a man's thoughts
to subvert the state."