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For some reason, I found
myself doing some of these.

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A couple of winters ago,
poem called Catullus 70.

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The first three lines are--

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and the first three
lines I do what

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I said one shouldn't do when
he's writing poetry referred

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to another poem.

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Don't do that.

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It's done here.

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It has a little
translation of a few lines.

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Well, Catullus so you knew
raged what these women could

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to their lovers right in air.

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Find a sea and right there.

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Once I had a girl
burned in my ear

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where she learned
maybe in a book

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or heard on the
loose street slurred.

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Tried to write it one stroke
saw the sheet cringe and smoke.

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Wrote it on the air, instead
singing birds fell down dead.

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Wrote it on the running wave
saw the sea fish's grave.

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Am I better Roman I breathing
to the diseased sky, drinking

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and what see I drink from
the love corrupted sink.

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Roman know a better way
what the pretty lips say.

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If you dangle in that mesh,
take a knife and score a flesh.

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Leave a scar fingers find
when the long nights grind

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righted where if you forget
grief and shame will prick yet.