Poems September 2011
From Odi Barbare
XVI
Such egregious sponsors of fame | post-Georgics
All in line here · They should have known Quaderni
Stands as book six mastered and still replaying
Gramsci in Hades
What is progress asked Mussolini not in
Those precise words nor I would guess in earnest
He had men well-stationed in laws attend him
Croce Gentile
Blazoned EP also sent in credentials
I could hold sound arguments credit bêtises
Centos-worth late lyrical fine fiasco
Clipped out of logic
Making this mid-strophe a formal target
Cracked eugenics casting alive the deutschmark
Value intrinsic no more gold or silver
Pace Judentum
Deem of laws excising the wicked poet
Through which process or by what form of trial
Pound attained his rôle as the grillo’s compère
Preach at self-hazard
Gramsci scribed his will as a dead man risen:
Veins of durance granted to certain spirits:
Cancel Hades write purgatorially
Tried the assayer
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