"...MALUM HUNC..."
O unknown insect
reading Catullus
along with me this
overheated day
basking in a threatened
Brexit and Boris.
You read with all your many legs
your blue striped body like a cursor
cursing that "...supercilious
superfluous figure."
Yes old Catullus
has the measure of him
Read faster little one!
We need to turn a page
where we find ourselves indeed
in that "far island of the west."
And even after all these years
since Caesar's first invasion
we still breed
this "multifucking tool."
The insect lingers long
on this phrase.
"Why patronise him,damit?
Except to gobble up
fat private
fortunes!"
My cursor
takes to the skies
tired of such
a human and his lies.
"Malum hunc" it observes
with a whir of wings.
Both insect and Catullus
in agreement despite
the missing
centuries.
Meanwhile the rough beast
slouches towards
( God help us!)
No. 10 to be PM.
Jun 29, 2019
Jun 29, 2019 at 3:48 PM UTC
"...MALUM HUNC..."
O unknown insect
reading Catullus
along with me this
overheated day
basking in a threatened
Brexit and Boris.
You read with all your many legs
your blue striped body like a cursor
cursing that "...supercilious
superfluous figure."
Yes old Catullus
has the measure of him
Read faster little one!
We need to turn a page
where we find ourselves indeed
in that "far island of the west."
And even after all these years
since Caesar's first invasion
we still breed
this "multifucking tool."
The insect lingers long
on this phrase.
"Why patronise him,damit?
Except to gobble up
fat private
fortunes!"
My cursor
takes to the skies
tired of such
a human and his lies.
"Malum hunc" it observes
with a whir of wings.
Both insect and Catullus
in agreement despite
the missing
centuries.
Meanwhile the rough beast
slouches towards
( God help us!)
No. 10 to be PM.
Definition of malum
: an offense against right or law : EVIL, WRONG
Malum discordiae - apple of discord: object which sows dissension and anger
Thanks to Mr. Catullus for the loan of his Carmen XXIX and to Guy Lee's translation.
