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You're a Pompeiian poet. Volcanic ash is raining down. You write one last poem. What is it?
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Pharmakonprime in Poetry & Free Verse

Jupiter Vesuvius

Gouts of ash consume

Summer’s scorching terminus—

Divine serpent’s wrath.

Shrines of sweet incense

Desperate supplications

Oh, what have we done?