Miser Catulle (Catullus 8)
The poet, a bit down on his
luck, out of money from too much high living, lacking direction,
and rejected by the object of his affection, begins withdrawing
inward. Here, lost somewhere in a world reserved only for poets,
separate from Time and Space, thoughts from all ages and places,
past and present, reach him. First to try and bolster him up
is the voice of a contemporary Roman poet friend, then a Greek
nightclub singer (assuming the voice of Clodia), an English clergyman,
and finally an American cowboy.
