Here Lies Little Boat
Made of “mountain-grown timber” and so forth.
[Insert metaphor here, re: virgin planks
plunging into the bawdy sea.]
Taught me everything I know.
Fastest boat there ever was, everyone
says so. Pretty little thing, anyway.
Retired now. Changing times,
aging lines. Something of that sort.
[Nothing whatsoever to do
with recent purchase of Big Boat.]
Catullus 4