Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Pricked

Cleopatra had wily charm.
The Romans sent Marc Antony
To be in charge. So to disarm
This man and persuade him to be
But a pawn in her queenly game,
She summoned him to her bedroom.
But before Marc Antony came,
She ordered that roses abloom
Upon her bedroom floor be spread
From wall to wall and up waist high.
Then she awaited in her bed
For Marc Antony to drop by.

But instead of getting horny,
Marc Antony just got thorny.