The girl’s perfection

inspires affection

It’s queer

that here

he can’t cast his spell

in her direction

Somewhere near

one senses fear

Casanova in hell

The girl is naked

The boy is naked

He hides

inside

a secret chamber

There to gape

through a velvet drape

and dream of rape

Casanova in hell

Her sharp suggestion

he couldn’t get an erection

came as a shock

He finds himself

a laughing stock

His ageing fate

to contemplate

Casanova in hell

Back in the library

his revenge is his story

What he will write

will recall the bite

of his wit

and legendary appetite

The sybarite

Casanova is well

For Casanova has the last laugh

Creates the myth and vindication

of his sexual vocation

Makes the definitive collection

His lives and lovers and above all

his erection

will live in history

2003. Another literary inspiration, this time from the novella Casanova’s Return to Venice by the Austrian novelist and playwright Arthur Schnitzler. Casanova is finding it hard adjusting to growing old, losing his sexual magnetism, and being rejected and mocked. He deals with it by starting to write the erotic memoirs which give him immortality.