From A Letter From Lesbia

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 So, praise the gods, Catullus is away!
And let me tend you this advice, my dear:
Take any lover that you will, or may,
Except a poet.
 All of them are queer.


It's just the same- a quarrel or a kiss
Is but a tune to play upon his pipe.

He's always hymning that or wailing this;
Myself, I much prefer the business type.


That thing he wrote, the time the sparrow died-
(Oh, most unpleasant- gloomy, tedious words!)
I called it sweet, and made believe I cried;
The stupid fool! I've always hated birds.
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