The Ides of March

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. - Joseph Campbell

"Beware of the Ides of March"

Does this saying give you a vague sense of foreboding?

Do you wonder what you should worry about on that day?

If you are like me, you think, "I should know this, but I don't."

Have no fear.

It was Shakespeare

Who brought you here.

Julius Caesar was the play.

March 15, 44 B.C. was the day.

Caesar was warned not to go to the Senate.

Doomed he was. This king they did assassinate.

The "Ides of March" - the fifteenth on the calendar,

Marked by history - old Bill's drama does not reassure.

Tags: Shakespeare poetry

My "topical post" today at South by Southwest is about elections since the 1950's.