<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(72, 72, 72); color: rgb(72, 72, 72); font-family: sans-serif, serif; font-size: 42px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Ave Ceasar</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">by Banjo Patrrson</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">Long ago the Gladiators, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white;">When the call to combat came, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Marching past the massed spectators, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Hailed the Emp'ror with acclaim! </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Voices ringing with the fury </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Of the strife so soon to be, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Cried, 'O Caesar, morituri </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">salutamus te! ' </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Nowadays the massed spectators </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">See the unaccustomed sight - </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Legislative gladiators </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Marching to their last great fight; </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Young and old, obscure and famous, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Hand to hand and knee to knee - </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Hear the war-cry, 'Salutamus </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">morituri te! ' </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">Fight! Nor be the fight suspended </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Till the corpses strew the plain. </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Ere the grisly strife be ended </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Five and thirty must be slain. </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Slay and spare not, lest another </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Haply may discomfit thee: </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Brother now must war with brother - </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">'Salutamus te! ' </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">War-torn vet'ran, skilled debater, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Trickster famed of bridge and road, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Now for each grim gladiator </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Gapes Oblivion's drear abode. </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Should the last great final jury </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Turn their thumbs down - it must be! </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">'Ave, Caesar, morituri </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">salutamus te! '</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>