Rome: At The Pyramid Of Cestius. (Near The Graves Of Shelley & Keats) Comments

This month, my wife and I took a road trip through the South, visiting Civil Rights museums and sites. In Selma, I walked across the Edmund Pettis bridge, and I thought of this poem. Pettis must have been well-known for something in his time, but now, no one remembers him for anything except it was starting on his bridge that ML King let the march to Montgomery - beaten back the first time, successful the second. Edmund Pettis = Cestius.

same poem as on the previous page.....