14.

    I love your big, night eyes

    Calvus, you big cunt. Money is

    missing and the Vatican smells you.

    Now quit shitting, I know of some locations

    where I keep my dog, my child and my poems.

    It is bad to dent a client's savings.

    It is tantamount to missing work because you're drunk.

    Now, you're not my man, but I think you could benefit from a beating,

    which is not as desperate as your labors.

    It is magnificent, horrible, sacred and libel!

    When you solicit Catullus for advice

    you'll miss continuity and die like a rat.

    Saturn will turn but you will die!

    If luxury and a library

    are your interests I'll bite your chin.

    I love your big, night eyes Calvus

    but you're a pest not a poet.

    
    

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