One was stabbed by his friends. One was incinerated by the sunrise. One lived in Rhode Island.
We know that the Ides of March is the day Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in 44 B.C., but it was also the day, 1,966 years later, that the movie “Nosferatu” debuted in Berlin. Just 15 years after that, H.P. Lovecraft died in Providence. What will you do to celebrate today?
Here is a limerick to mark this auspicious—literally!—occasion.
Division of laundry made strides
Ere Brutus and his regicides
In bleached togas slew
Stains with Et Clorox II
Which is where we get “Whites of their Ides.”
The words above may or may not have appeared in that transformational unit of literature known as “Limericks of Loss And Regret.”
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