The Ides of January (Humberto’s Song)

Two months before Julius Caesar fell
Another death occurred.
The victim was Humberto Caesar,
The emperor’s pet bird.

Well Humberto was as loyal as
A domesticated bird could be,
But power comes along with a price:
Humberto had enemies.

Most prominent was Clint,
Brutus’s pet cat.
‘Twas a miserable furball of betrayal,
But every cat’s like that.

Well I don’t need to tell you
How Humberto was killed by Clint,
But being the Ides of January
Julius should have gotten the hint.

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  1. Perfect foreshadowing! Et tu brute’s cat?

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