Fattened Cassius croaked awake-
at hours deemed ungodly by his
previous, more profligate life.
Living, now,
among the vines
his ample, if only venal,
appetites ran almost amok
for the first few months
of a tumultuous matrimony-
made waking most nightmarish.
Careened he toward dissolution,
of mind and marriage,
and stung by schemesters
on his honeymoon,
he was plagued by paperwork,
creditors loomed, darkly large,
circling in his immoderate imagination.
He sucked slow, thick coffee
on the way to work,
scowling silently,
steeped in stupidity,
himself upbraiding unrelentingly.
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