Saturday 16 January 2010

DEAD POETS: ME & EZRA POUND







DEAD POETS:
ME & EZRA POUND




Allen Ginsberg is dead.
Robert Graves is dead.
Basil Bunting is dead.
Thom Gunn is dead.
Geoffrey Grigson is dead.
Adrian Mitchell and Ivor Cutler too.
Christopher Isherwood is dead.
John Betjaman is dead.
Philip Larkin is dead.
Ted Hughes, Auden, Eliot, and Pound,
they’re all dead too…

of course,
Byron, Shelley and Coleridge
are dead. Baudelaire, Verlaine,
Andre Breton and Tristan Tzara,
they’re all dead too…

but me –
I’M STILL WRITING!!!!

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