Friday, August 6, 2021

Slogging Through the Cantos - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/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

 

(Death in the afternoon was a fashionable cocktail)

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