Ann, I knew that. 'He done her in' said at the Ascot milieu. It also appears in "My Fair Lady", a truly great musical, as one of my best friends will know, I trow. (There ain't nothing like the real thing, baby. Worth fighting for.) My sin here was carefully misquoting a song trilled by "Tweety Bird" in a Disney. Your effort is indeed an interesting take on Valerius Catullus, especially since so much phallic rubbish has been ladled out about that animal, starting with Martial, and since I like little birds. I'm going to get back to Mr C as soon as I reasonably can, and I shall take pains to gently refute in print your theory -- if needed. Do you have a footnote? Has your poem been published anywhere else?
Best.
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