Cleo and Mark Antony had quite a love affair;
It even made the brooding Sphinx grin down on them and stare.
But Marky boy went back to Rome and suddenly got hitched;
Cleopatra threw a fit to find out she'd been ditched.
Trumpets blow and armies march and pirates get the axe,
and Pompey hosts a drunken feast where morals grow quite lax.
But Shakespeare won't let Marky go too peaceful to the grave;
He sends him back upon the Nile where he can act the knave.
Octavius is horning in on Marky's little bower,
So Antony prepares to show his army's mighty power.
Cleopatra promises her fleet to help her sweetie;
But when push comes down to shove they sail off to Tahiti.
Cleo and the love-sick Mark are part of the retreat;
They drown their shame in wine-soaked love, which really ain't discrete.
Another battle, fought on land, shows Antony's a coward;
His own men think he is a clown – an ancient Curly Howard.
His patron, mighty Hercules, deserts him just like that.
Cleopatra toys with him like any common cat.
She pretends to kill herself to bring him back to bed.
So the poor guy offs himself and falls down pretty dead.
Octavius is now the boss, so Cleo starts gyrating;
But he isn't buying it and puts her on "call waiting".
As her power and her gold are loosened from her grasp
She snuggles up just one last time – with quite a lucky asp.
This play is for the ages, that is actually for certain;
But look out for the movie starring Taylor and Rich Burton!
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