Viv
Enjoyed your 'imitation' of Catullus, whom, as a poet, I would never mind
being compared to!
One of the most enjoyable I have read is the New Zealand poet, CK Stead's,
which includes this delightful short section:
Air New Zealand
old friend of Catullus
you offer a quick hike
to Disneyland
the South Pole
Hong Kong's hotspots
to ease a jealous ache.
Thanks brother
but I'd rather
you flew downcountry a message to Clodia.
Tell her she's known to her 300 loveless lovers
as the scrum machine.
Tell her
Catullus loves her
as the lone lawn daisy
loves
the Masport mower.
(_Geographies_ [Auckland UP, 1982] 65).
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
But the dead are wholehearted about being dead,
no half measures no shilly-shallying:
they're committed, dedicated
to purposelessness.
Al Purdy
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