Oratorio Posted on December 29, 2017 by Kirby Congdon Key West Poet Laureate Kirby Congdon (Photo by Richard Watherwax) by Kirby Congdon……. Oratorio Endeavoring to be “remembered forever” is to be a bore, or whatever, when that eternal measurement of time for oracles may be clever but it’s hardly more than a handy rhyme to remind the dead, or whoever, of some war at one time or another.