Have you heard of the endangered rhinoceros
That’s wandering listless along the Bosphorus?
Not the wooly one, wiped out by the first bipedal
Predators, but another one who’s fatal
Flaw is to be Roman overrun by Ottoman.
Not the couch so much but by phenomenon
Far more pervasive and insidious
The scimitar alone would be perfidious
But everywhere they confiscated souls
Scraped off the tesserae and planted moles.
Where is the glinting gone? The serpentine
Music of mellifluous Greek? and Byzantine
Domes are suddenly converted into mosques
Skyscrapers everywhere replaced our boscs.
Acantholimon 