Sunday, January 18, 2009

Cleaving pound



The pact

“I make a pact with
you, Walt Whitman”
—Ezra Pound

i make a pact—with you
ezra pound—my fascist father
bollingen prize—badboy poet
pig-headed—pisa prick
st. elizabeth—prisoner of zenda
poet—of the new woode
you broke it—that whitman Line
now it’s—time for cleaving
once—again
time for—commerce
words—between us
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—based on Ezra Pound’s
“A Pact,” Personae (1926)


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