ISSUE: Fall 2016
Empta domus fuerat tibi, Tongiliane, ducentis:
abstulit hanc nimium casus in urbe frequens.
Conlatum est deciens. Rogo, non potes ipse videri
incendisse tuam, Tongiliane, domum?
You bought yourself a low-cost house
for only forty thou’.
Then lost it in a city fire;
they burn so often now.
Insurance paid out well, I heard:
ten times the sale amount.
I just can’t help but ask myself
if you burned down your house.