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By Jones Irwin From Issue No. 9

After Catallus

 

As God is my witness, where is the

distinction between Aemelius’ arse &

mouth? The filthy talk of one equals the

other’s shit-making. Of course, his arse

is no doubt the cleaner & nicer of the

two; when he opens his lips, I just hear a

mule’s rhetoric hee hawing like a hag witch

without any teeth left from chewing on rude

meat. To think that this man has sex. In fact,

he has always fancied himself a lothario. I have it

on good counsel that he has stolen into certain

conjugal beds. But whatever woman has handled this

Donkey Man’s appendage is just as capable of rimming a bald

executioner with gangrene.

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