Thursday, March 01, 2007
Ah Yes It Was
His breakneck chariot over whole city that day! Gaius in charge except we had a thousand
by that name at least.
So the others became, for example, Gaius XV, foreman at the site of Minerva's Temple,
Gaius XX, building the west gate from rubble in that quarter.
Gaius I took a rare breath to complain to me, "You got a million Romans on a project,
you got a million bosses and two million opinions. But, we're gonna do it! One Day!"
"They’ll say we never did," I pronounced.
His breakneck chariot over whole city that day! Gaius in charge except we had a thousand
by that name at least.
So the others became, for example, Gaius XV, foreman at the site of Minerva's Temple,
Gaius XX, building the west gate from rubble in that quarter.
Gaius I took a rare breath to complain to me, "You got a million Romans on a project,
you got a million bosses and two million opinions. But, we're gonna do it! One Day!"
"They’ll say we never did," I pronounced.
