Thank God no one knows his name
it's all bad enough

The made-up stories, silly
fantasies that cheat

with time, the spotlight
of planets on Bethlehem

the king's village, the comet
and the arrival of three scholars

the people having something
to talk about again, and the tyrant

who has all the boys killed
How could he have lived

with only girls his age
as the sole survivor

and everyone's hope
of revenge and freedom

without a name, just with the title
of a predecessor, the doom
of old dreams?