Lives of Famous Whores

A lost book of Suetonius

What could he say of them, these easy women?
That their lives were comfortable or difficult,
that they were beautiful, with amazing skills
men (and women) might pay for?

It is quite something to be famous, even
if it's only you can moan convincingly
beneath some fat Patrician who has paid you
to penetrate your body.

Who will remember him, unless he's Caesar?
You will always have these voluptuous thighs,
these perfect breasts, even when old. Even dead—
for an author has loved you.