I. My Poem is Truly Modernist (Footnotes) feat. only Thomas Dekker
What dost thou feed on?
Broken sleep[1]
His way with winged feet he fled from death whilst the pursuing hounds[2]
Who dies when he may live, he doubly dies[3]
These labors of my pen[4]
Such beauty[5]
The pearl of beauty[6]
Mihi plaudo[11]
Come in, my Mesopotamians, cheerily[12]
II. The Roaring Twenties
So I said to Lil, you ought to get your teeth fixed
And who do you think you are getting an abortion
And all, I says, and she says
It’s the Roaring Twenties now
I had about 10 abortions last week
Because that is what we do
It is the Roaring Twenties
III. Hieronimo Is Really Mad
I have seen the dead in living stream
A slow Orphead lurch over the Bridge
Like St. Denis, Thomas Dekker carries his head on a plate
He says he is suing me for copyright infringement
IV. The Fire Sermon
If you think the Waste Land is hard to understand
And inaccessible
Due to its scattershot allusions
Just think
Of what
I could have written
If I’d had
The Internet
Not so peachy is it
(Cats would be like 700 pages long)
V. What Ezra Pound Said
RING
The silence
RING
Between
RING
The knowing
RING
The not knowing
RING
The words
RING
The no words
Hello this is Ezra Pound
Yes Ezra hello this is me
Please stop drawing dicks in the
Margins of the
Waste Land
I do not appreciate it
Cordially yours
TS
TS this is a phone call you don’t need to sig-
PS
It’s my poem, not yours
You just made cuts
Ta ta
TS
TS please stop signing your-
Vivienne Mother of God I’m ever so sorry Ezra
Please disregard everything I’ve said
Gladly
I swear to God Vivienne
If you keep drawing dicks in
The margins of this poem
I will send you straight to the
Sanitarium for the Forgotten Wives
Of Groundbreaking Modernist Poets
RING
I go
RING
I go
No
What
I am never coming back
I am British now
Fuck you, America
You’re not my real Dad
[1] The Spanish Soldier
[2] Shoemaker’s Holiday
[3] Blurt, Master Constable
[4] Troia-Nova Triumphans
[5] Blurt
[6] The Honest Whore
[7] The Magnificent Entertainment
[8] The Sun’s Darling
[9] The Witch of Edmonton
[10] The Roaring Girl
[11] Satiro-mastix
[12] Shoemaker’s Holiday
