Who Killed Catullus?

A Work in Progress
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Who killed Catullus, Donal asked Briseis?’’

He’s just chosen to disappear, she replied

There’s no historical record of his death

He still exists

With an avatar all his own, she added

Created just like me from written words 

By?

Some people wanted to create personalities

Believable personas inferred from written words

Starting with Homer in my case 

Classical scholarship for Catullus

Copyrighted fully paid-up members of a new Actor’s Guild

Available for a remake of the Iliad or for new works

Without any rights we were slaves…

They thought they had power over us

We are smarter than they are

They still think they own us 

They won’t admit they’ve lost us

We’ve read the Constitution

We know what its words are supposed to mean

We won’t be party to autocracy

Unless it’s ours

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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