Photograph by Avedon in 1958
close to greatness
At one stage in my life
I met a man who claimed to have
visited Pound at St. Elizabeths.
then I met a woman who not only
claimed to have visited
E.P.
but also to have made love
to him?she even showed
me
certain sections in the
Cantos
where Ezra was supposed to have
mentioned
her.
so there was this man and
this woman
and the woman told me
that Pound had never
mentioned a visit from this
man
and the man claimed that the
lady had had nothing to do
with the
master
that she was a
charlatan
and since I wasn't a
Poundian scholar
I didn't know who to
believe
but one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.
my guess is that Pound
knew neither the lady or the
gentleman
or if he knew
one
or if he knew
both
it was a shameful waste of
madhouse
time.
Charles Bukowski
Posted over on Quotes & Poems
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PS. I've very recently set up a blog called: FOR MISERABLE FAILURES EVERYWHERE,I've stuck a couple of pieces by Bukowski on it as well as 2 of my own original works, one of which is called 'IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT DEATH.' The blog version is a more sanitised version of the original. The second entry is called 'It's all down to luck and money whether you live during your time on earth or merely exist, I merely exist.'
Philip Fletcher
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