#cantos
Feather light words exhumed
heavy as Mussolini's clock
coo coo times, chimes
and a fascist bird sings;
sweet and succinct
Taken as is
might slight delight
The vitiation of words
in the phrases
Petals dead on a wet, rotted bough
Sep 3, 2020
Sep 3, 2020 at 5:05 AM UTC
Lawrence Hall
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Slogging Through the Cantos
A feral howl of sustained malevolence
The souring stench of anti-Semitism
Random ideograms scattered about
Appropriating a touch of Chinese cool
Defining tainted chic at Rapallo
Free verse scattered like post-war hopes shattered -
And did he take a splash of Mussolini
With his death-in-the-afternoon denials?
How awkward for those whose poetic sage
Was but a mad relic of a tattered age
Aug 6, 2021
Aug 6, 2021 at 9:49 AM UTC