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I offer up something, but you don't care. You point out that I'm unhappy, like it's a sin. Why would I stay on a path that would let you in? You're better off calling your "Same old used to be". It's more likely he'll have more to do with you than me. Because I won't, it's been a slice, enough is enough, it hasn't been nice. As for your friends, you can have them too. Everybody gets lonely sometimes, when I do, I won't be thinking of you. I know you know That I wanted to play. I know you know just how to ***** me. If you could **** my brains out I'd have second thoughts; I might have stuck around. But all your ******* games just brought me down. So what's the fare, would you want to stay? That's why I did what I did, but let's face it, You can't stand me when I am drunk, and I can't stand you when I'm sober. No matter how you put it, it's just another way to say it's over.
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Apr 30
Apr 30, 2026 at 8:12 AM UTC
Something
Let us deride the smugness of “The Times”: GUFFAW ! So much the gagged reviewers, It will pay them when the worms are wriggling in their vitals ; These were they who objected to newness, HERE are their TOMB STONES. They supported the gag and the ring : A little black BOX contains them. SO shall you be also, You slut-bellied obstructionist, You sworn foe to free speech and good letters, You fungus, you continuous gangrene. Come, let us on with the new deal, Let us be done with Jews and Jobbery, Let us SPIT upon those who fawn on the JEWS for their money, Let us out to the pastures. PERHAPS I will die at thirty, Perhaps you will have the pleasure of defiling my pauper’s grave, I wish you JOY, I proffer you ALL my assistance. It has been your HABIT for long to do away with true poets, You either drive them mad, or else you blink at their suicides, Or else you condone their drugs, and talk of insanity and genius, BUT I will not go mad to please you. I will not FLATTER you with an early death. OH, NO ! I will stick it out, I will feel your hates wriggling about my feet, And I will laugh at you and mock you, And I will offer you consolations in irony, O fools, detesters of Beauty. I have seen many who go about with supplications, Afraid to say how they hate you. HERE is the taste of my BOOT, CARESS it, lick off the BLACKING.
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Nov 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM UTC
SALUTATION THE THIRD. By Ezra Pound
Crows caw And the women chatter While trees saw A thousand matters And a cats claw And the wind carries Whispers old and new While, there, married The fools who haven’t a clue The voices within Die in ignorance Surface sighted men Are idiots to patience A thousand voices quieted To the world rested in palms As no appetites are wetted We’ve forgotten old psalms Gone is what matters Supple sustenance for soul Replaced by glass shattered Yet the heart still grows Nay it starves For sustenance denied Chosen laws’ Harvard And empty A.I. A thousand voices quieted Craving cars within Superficially saturated Inside your Gods’ light dims And restless is Morpheus Emptied is Khemenu’s basin Writing to your inner Boethius And the day is out I’ve been here since night Watching the thoughtless come about Enter prison, now returned in sight Back are the chattering women Gone is the silent respite Abandoned is Gods Heaven Be it not for the last flicker of light But the Old Ones have spoken Hymns of liberation Visions be woven Songs of man’s abomination Dance and joy Lust and pride Forget the inner boy Behind left a sight wide Traded for shallow waters Cyclopean cities of nigh Tapped by the unbothered Phantom of the dead city R’lyeh Your newfound liberation is devolution Freedom is your cage For thoughts ceased their convolution Once again bound by animal rage Inward no Outward tempts Surface grows Depth nonexistent Pretentious know it alls Who know nothing In their selfish muse they fall Without an original thought of something And the wild kingdom Expands its reign Filled by blind fandom And Zealous feign The Old One herds it’s sheep Eyes turned off Their minds gone to sleep While the unwilling scoff They count their days But the unicorn finds arrogance For to the cattle they’ll fall prey For they’ve abandoned their righteous penance Forget the last as you commit the next Crime, how soon until the ultimate crime Hope not for the fallen, for let’s Wash clean our soul in brine But prey not fall to the Beast Of the sea Ready for your soul feast To devour your faith and dreams But still His word you pervert And winged demon still steals As His will you subvert Your life turned into its meal For they’ve abandoned their gift Of independence The point has been missed And we are all so dependent God is in the TV Question and answers that are hard to solve Oh Darling, please believe me The darkest hour is right before the dawn Yourself forgotten A thousand faces in your mirror Each day a new allotment Not your voice, but theirs you hear Valorless galore Against the Krakens tide Because their thoughts matter more Your true self hides The bird has rid its wings A bird it is no more And forgotten how to sing A bird it is no more Lions Pride becomes Hordes Chant They’ve died and returned a Lich Not a King, just a scamp Just another stitch There, there lies bones apart Empty within How can your revolution start When with yourself you can’t begin Turn back time Reach into before Bathe with the swine Across a barren shore Take your hatred out of me I don’t have to listen Campaign speech of liberty Theatre masks gone missing Love and joy War and peace Meat and soy Sinner and the priest You are everything And I am one Your hate deliberating Murdered is the one I am the animal Who will not be himself Thought unfathomable Unrealized hell Demons whisper in your ear And I start to hear them Your will a fulfilled fear From you, Baal stems Pride and humility A spectrums range Greed and charity Perspectives change Across the water Unfairness praised Unjust no bother Open eyes hazed What’s it then if I find my demise A number for their ends Begone to those who dare question Just a means to their end
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Nov 22, 2021
Nov 22, 2021 at 9:17 AM UTC
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Crows caw And the women chatter While trees saw A thousand matters And a cats claw And the wind carries Whispers old and new While, there, married The fools who haven’t a clue The voices within Die in ignorance Surface sighted men Are idiots to patience A thousand voices quieted To the world rested in palms As no appetites are wetted We’ve forgotten old psalms Gone is what matters Supple sustenance for soul Replaced by glass shattered Yet the heart still grows Nay it starves For sustenance denied Chosen laws’ Harvard And empty A.I. A thousand voices quieted Craving cars within Superficially saturated Inside your Gods’ light dims And restless is Morpheus Emptied is Khemenu’s basin Writing to your inner Boethius And the day is out I’ve been here since night Watching the thoughtless come about Enter prison, now returned in sight Back are the chattering women Gone is the silent respite Abandoned is Gods Heaven Be it not for the last flicker of light But the Old Ones have spoken Hymns of liberation Visions be woven Songs of man’s abomination Dance and joy Lust and pride Forget the inner boy Behind left a sight wide Traded for shallow waters Cyclopean cities of nigh Tapped by the unbothered Phantom of the dead city R’lyeh Your newfound liberation is devolution Freedom is your cage For thoughts ceased their convolution Once again bound by animal rage Inward no Outward tempts Surface grows Depth nonexistent Pretentious know it alls Who know nothing In their selfish muse they fall Without an original thought of something And the wild kingdom Expands its reign Filled by blind fandom And Zealous feign The Old One herds it’s sheep Eyes turned off Their minds gone to sleep While the unwilling scoff They count their days But the unicorn finds arrogance For to the cattle they’ll fall prey For they’ve abandoned their righteous penance Forget the last as you commit the next Crime, how soon until the ultimate crime Hope not for the fallen, for let’s Wash clean our soul in brine But prey not fall to the Beast Of the sea Ready for your soul feast To devour your faith and dreams But still His word you pervert And winged demon still steals As His will you subvert Your life turned into its meal For they’ve abandoned their gift Of independence The point has been missed And we are all so dependent God is in the TV Question and answers that are hard to solve Oh Darling, please believe me The darkest hour is right before the dawn Yourself forgotten A thousand faces in your mirror Each day a new allotment Not your voice, but theirs you hear Valorless galore Against the Krakens tide Because their thoughts matter more Your true self hides The bird has rid its wings A bird it is no more And forgotten how to sing A bird it is no more Lions Pride becomes Hordes Chant They’ve died and returned a Lich Not a King, just a scamp Just another stitch There, there lies bones apart Empty within How can your revolution start When with yourself you can’t begin Turn back time Reach into before Bathe with the swine Across a barren shore Take your hatred out of me I don’t have to listen Campaign speech of liberty Theatre masks gone missing Love and joy War and peace Meat and soy Sinner and the priest You are everything And I am one Your hate deliberating Murdered is the one I am the animal Who will not be himself Thought unfathomable Unrealized hell Demons whisper in your ear And I start to hear them Your will a fulfilled fear From you, Baal stems Pride and humility A spectrums range Greed and charity Perspectives change Across the water Unfairness praised Unjust no bother Open eyes hazed What’s it then if I find my demise A number for their ends Begone to those who dare question Just a means to their end
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Blue, blue is the grass about the river And the willows have overfilled the close garden. And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth, White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door. Slender, she puts forth a slender hand; And she was a courtezan in the old days, And she has married a sot, Who now goes drunkenly out And leaves her too much alone.
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Oct 23, 2021
Oct 23, 2021 at 10:51 AM UTC
The Beautiful Toilet
My head Is pounding It hurts Perhaps I shouldn't have Hit it Over Ove r O v E r O V E r O V e R Again Against a concrete wall
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Aug 9, 2019
Aug 9, 2019 at 3:42 PM UTC
Concrete Wall
On this day, which seems a portal to the rest of life, A pair of Rose breasted Grosbeaks come to the feeder Under powerful white beaks, their throats are brilliant red.   And Pound’s words: “What thou lov’st well” come to mind. “What thou lov’st well” Words I recited to Janey when her husband died. To myself when I lost my house, And that job, thirty years ago. When mother’s white hair signaled her mortality Now, this beautiful bird And coffee And taking breaths An oriole in the apple tree Picking nectar out of May blossoms... “What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage”
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May 25, 2019
May 25, 2019 at 1:28 PM UTC
Ezra Pound and the Grosbeak
Your name became my favorite sound. It would always make my heart pound, and even make my head spin around. You’re different from the rest I’ve found.
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May 2, 2019
May 2, 2019 at 1:13 PM UTC
n a m e
If I could tell you how much You make my heart pound each day I would lose sight of the Earth You blinded me From who I could be
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Apr 14, 2019
Apr 14, 2019 at 11:36 PM UTC
Blinded
One brain, one mouth, one being - nothing more! I’ve killed my selves so many times My own womb has suffered crimes, To be a poet have I tried But my ink has gotten dry. Rebirthed myself as man - for the poems, for the words, nothing more
Everything missed Dionysus like never before! A different life among you have I led! Deprived myself of all life gives In dark, alone and cold I wept. Destitute and desperate now, My heart freezing on a lonely bough. The bulb above my brow is hanging by a single thread and when It falls and breaks to pieces they will know that I am dead. Come sleep - or come death, I can see no difference. Blind me at least so I can mock the Sun!
 With shut eyes they think I am illiterate, Primordial is the essence and I am her son. They want me to dance at the feet of chance! Embrace chaos in my attic, Die a young and worthy addict. Forced to live in Hölderlin’s tower As nothing more than a wilting flower. My words trembled but were barren, devoid of romance, So my poetry never made anyone dance. I clipped my wings so I can drink with sailors, Walk amongst them on my frail feet, To be man is all I ever wanted, Chugged the nectar of life which made me sick. Oh, men! How fragile you are! Slowly poisoned by the time you try to escape ‘Meaningless is existence’ you say as you create! Come sleep - or come death, 
I can see no difference. 
 Poverty through poetry, the most human way to go, Come sleep - or come death, Let me go. He wanted to be human - the humanest of them all - a poet! He wanted to put pain on paper - even make it rhyme He wanted to be the one to hear the screams of time. And as the light faded and the bulb broke, Darkness came wearing mistress clothes. ‘Oh, men! How strange you really are!’ - he yelled. ‘Dionysus! What a man you have become!’ - she said. Then he disappeared swearing to never return, Thinking that poetry is for those who like to burn.
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Apr 5, 2019
Apr 5, 2019 at 11:13 AM UTC
The Despairs of Poor Dionysus
One brain, one mouth, one being - nothing more! I’ve killed my selves so many times My own womb has suffered crimes, To be a poet have I tried But my ink has gotten dry. Rebirthed myself as man - for the poems, for the words, nothing more
Everything missed Dionysus like never before! A different life among you have I led! Deprived myself of all life gives In dark, alone and cold I wept. Destitute and desperate now, My heart freezing on a lonely bough. The bulb above my brow is hanging by a single thread and when It falls and breaks to pieces they will know that I am dead. Come sleep - or come death, I can see no difference. Blind me at least so I can mock the Sun!
 With shut eyes they think I am illiterate, Primordial is the essence and I am her son. They want me to dance at the feet of chance! Embrace chaos in my attic, Die a young and worthy addict. Forced to live in Hölderlin’s tower As nothing more than a wilting flower. My words trembled but were barren, devoid of romance, So my poetry never made anyone dance. I clipped my wings so I can drink with sailors, Walk amongst them on my frail feet, To be man is all I ever wanted, Chugged the nectar of life which made me sick. Oh, men! How fragile you are! Slowly poisoned by the time you try to escape ‘Meaningless is existence’ you say as you create! Come sleep - or come death, 
I can see no difference. 
 Poverty through poetry, the most human way to go, Come sleep - or come death, Let me go. He wanted to be human - the humanest of them all - a poet! He wanted to put pain on paper - even make it rhyme He wanted to be the one to hear the screams of time. And as the light faded and the bulb broke, Darkness came wearing mistress clothes. ‘Oh, men! How strange you really are!’ - he yelled. ‘Dionysus! What a man you have become!’ - she said. Then he disappeared swearing to never return, Thinking that poetry is for those who like to burn.
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ooh they said at match as it is finished good for them ooh! they said to compete when their team got first ooh!they shouted at celebrate when engage or wedding occurred ooh! they said and escaped when they stole some pounds ooh! they called at one who failed for his leg in love they may laugh at or they may wish to be at
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Nov 30, 2018
Nov 30, 2018 at 5:12 PM UTC
ooh
I couldn't realize my greatness much less your fascination in me depicted in your own eyes and much less see yours and a lot less understand then that I could have helped change earth. I had no idea I could change my life debating if changing it between my real identity and the one the world gave me would even be a wise thing to do naturally I was a small enchanted frog with a Queen of the forest stolen crown left in some small macabre pound Impossible to hap across your huge ocean to be kissed and reign as a new Queen of Kemah much less know I had the power of love to help me govern your heart your spirit soul but I knew I was your twin flame and I loved you at first sight. Until I believed in myself I realized my greatness and yours plus the dreams you described while alls gone to worp speeds and black hole law witches all beauty remained vissible tangible neverending! thats the magic of knowing true love. It never dies. I just never found anyone able to love me with the same passion ever again. The many times I tried to move on even you and women you trusted played the authors of malice and treachery setting me up with your contacts to be used betrayed deceived and trashed, so I live unmarried and free knowing good and evil deep in my core intuitive. I am just a woman of substance, AWAKENED! Aware! to my here and now, that's me and dear it hurt long and bad at times wishing I was never born but I preffer solitude from humans! I still wish to thank you my precious true love, you too universe for the rides! the good and the bad I am so eternaly grateful just a woman of substance.
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Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 5:37 PM UTC
A woman of substance
I couldn't realize my greatness much less your fascination in me depicted in your own eyes and much less see yours and a lot less understand then that I could have helped change earth. I had no idea I could change my life debating if changing it between my real identity and the one the world gave me would even be a wise thing to do naturally I was a small enchanted frog with a Queen of the forest stolen crown left in some small macabre pound Impossible to hap across your huge ocean to be kissed and reign as a new Queen of Kemah much less know I had the power of love to help me govern your heart your spirit soul but I knew I was your twin flame and I loved you at first sight. Until I believed in myself I realized my greatness and yours plus the dreams you described while alls gone to worp speeds and black hole law witches all beauty remained vissible tangible neverending! thats the magic of knowing true love. It never dies. I just never found anyone able to love me with the same passion ever again. The many times I tried to move on even you and women you trusted played the authors of malice and treachery setting me up with your contacts to be used betrayed deceived and trashed, so I live unmarried and free knowing good and evil deep in my core intuitive. I am just a woman of substance, AWAKENED! Aware! to my here and now, that's me and dear it hurt long and bad at times wishing I was never born but I preffer solitude from humans! I still wish to thank you my precious true love, you too universe for the rides! the good and the bad I am so eternaly grateful just a woman of substance.
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...And kirchéglise(Notre) dame o u r l a d y m y l a d y encyl-able, Pope or Pope or popedeux and vindicate the waysteland My caska is openclosed! (pews is pause is putride and prodigious) Et tout-en commun?Gizerly pharaoh HA lf gone. Source-error of Oz Ymandias and dust, and dustinction god pull downwhich? or fleurs-de-litigation. Vini, vu/gesehen, conquered/konkeri? And tot And mort and trunks gefallen. Fantast-asy—I flail. pause S e m p i ternam.
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Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 10:21 PM UTC
Our lady
Thinking about a man, that chases God, makes my heart pound.
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Apr 18, 2018
Apr 18, 2018 at 11:55 PM UTC
Maybe
It is a heartthrob’s way To say “I’d rather have noone than to not have you” When really The truth is That unless the other person Wants you too Then you're just spending time On a beach by yourself Watching the waves crash on by Never surfing yourself What is life? If not lived While you still have your health? It is a heartthrob’s way So I say Nothing else
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 2:13 PM UTC
A Throbbing Heart
Rain… Down… Hear the sound of my voice as it Pounds… Out… In the rain hear the words as they Are… Now… Mere reminders of who we once Were... And how… There is no time left waiting for Us… Now… So as the voices of rain ever fall Down… Would you honor me with your Reply? Now?
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Jan 3, 2017
Jan 3, 2017 at 5:00 PM UTC
Rain Down
Hear my heartbeat now With ears pressed to humble chest Ever calling out
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Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 1:53 AM UTC
Heartbeat Haiku
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
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Jul 22, 2016
Jul 22, 2016 at 2:52 PM UTC
In a Station of the Metro (Haiku by Ezra Pound)
Some people write, but rarely read, That seems to me most strange indeed, They've read less than a hundred books, Yet think they imitate the looks, Of Sassoon, Cummings, Keats and Pound, Or think they imitate the sound, Of Lennon, Dylan, or Shakur, And sometimes think they've offered more, Than Chaucer, Wilde or Shakespeare could, And claim they're more misunderstood, Than even Salman Rushdie was, Which really ticks me off because, After having read such wondrous works, A sense of failure always lurks, Inside me whenever I write, Yet they think they've done well tonight! I hate them all! That's it - I've said it! But they won't know until they've read it, Which is quite doubtful, I'd attest, Who'd read my work and skip the best?
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Dec 29, 2015
Dec 29, 2015 at 1:55 AM UTC
Why Are You Even Reading This?
the soldier in charge with raising the flag felt ashamed because he couldn’t get it up. he stayed up the whole night crying, packing all his Ezras and his Allens, ironing his shirts and wrapping in old newspapers the photos of him and his grandfather. the stench of fire crackers and hot dogs was still strong on his clothes and he couldn’t touch the top of his mouth with his tongue. the pain was edgy and the bull’s eye couldn’t take it anymore; he knew he flagged life once again.
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 4:37 AM UTC
#flagpost
Portrait d'une Femme Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,       London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left you this or that in fee:       Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things, Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.       Great minds have sought you — lacking someone else. You have been second always. Tragical?       No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious,       One average mind —   with one thought less, each year. Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit       Hours, where something might have floated up. And now you pay one.   Yes, you richly pay.       You are a person of some interest, one comes to you And takes strange gain away:       Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion; Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,       Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else That might prove useful and yet never proves,       That never fits a corner or shows use, Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:       The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work; Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,       These are your riches, your great store; and yet For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,       Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff: In the slow float of differing light and deep,       No! there is nothing! In the whole and all, Nothing that's quite your own.                   Yet this is you.
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 1:07 PM UTC
Ezra Pound
Portrait d'une Femme Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,       London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left you this or that in fee:       Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things, Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.       Great minds have sought you — lacking someone else. You have been second always. Tragical?       No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious,       One average mind —   with one thought less, each year. Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit       Hours, where something might have floated up. And now you pay one.   Yes, you richly pay.       You are a person of some interest, one comes to you And takes strange gain away:       Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion; Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,       Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else That might prove useful and yet never proves,       That never fits a corner or shows use, Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:       The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work; Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,       These are your riches, your great store; and yet For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,       Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff: In the slow float of differing light and deep,       No! there is nothing! In the whole and all, Nothing that's quite your own.                   Yet this is you.
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