[The otherwise model archive of cavafy.com doesn’t offer English translations of his unfinished poems. Here’s an attempt at a short macabre that shows a different side of the “sensational” Alexandrine. Original text can be found here.]
Often the look of Justinian
horror and disgust inspired in his attendants.
Something they suspected they did not dare utter;
then by chance one night they confirmed
that he was a demon from Hell:
he came out of his room in the late hours, and paced
headless the halls of the palace.
the Budafoki amended 