BIBULUS THE SPARTAN!

When you ask the cast to build a back-story for their characters (when playing Spartans and Athenians in Olympus) it is heart-warming to receive an email the next day like this!

I am BIBULUS - twister of tails, teller of tales;
I fought Athenians to a standstill.
I have a failing heart - but iron will.
I'll die in the tavern
I am a pliable lover, and hard as nails.

I scorn the living pain of hell
I spit on pity for a miserable heart
I'll play my part.
I leave no blood in other veins;
I am an empty pouch - a vacant shell.

I am the fly on any fresh paint;
I defy the itch you need to scratch;
I am the "purple patch"
I manufacture nothing - but plenty to say
I spoil, defile and taint.

I see visions in my restless sleep
I wander in time, I see all,
I believe the call
I am a man of vision;
I have secrets that - I keep

I take my pleasures where others fail,
I caress the skins of hanging thieves,
I'll crush what she believes.
I welcome worthless, bitter land.
I leave a stinking trail.

I lie in stupor, pressed 'gainst rocky sill.
I hear in fretful waves, the nightjar's chittering call;
I thrash about and fall.
I know not when or wither for
I've touched a place where time stands still.

I watch a figure stretching, reaching out to death.
I see it for my shade and know
I must let it go.
I do not covet my other self,
I will not claim another's soul but give it my last breath.

I AM BIBULUS THE SPARTAN - AN ANCIENT MAN IN ANOTHER WORLD

(Tony Dent - Bibulus The Spartan in OLYMPUS THE MUSICAL!)

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