The Curse is an excerpt from “Killing Caesar” (2020) by Jon Pescevich.
(…Antony is alone with Caesar’s dead body…)
Antony:
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth.
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man.
(…offstage, The Mob cries in ecstasy for Cassia and Brutus…)
Chorus:
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
(…Antony finds a flag discarded on the ground, and he strips the flag from its pole…)
Antony:
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,
which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips to beg the voice and utterance of my tongue!
A curse shall light upon the limbs of man.
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife shall burden all the parts of the world!
(…offstage, The Mob cries in ecstasy for Cassia and Brutus…)
Chorus:
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
(…Antony returns to Caesar’s body. He wraps Caesar’s body in the flag…)