Thursday, June 24, 2010

LXXVIII

By the square elm of Ida

                        40 geese are assembled
            (little sister who could dance on a sax-pence)
                        to arrange a world peace
                                                On a ducat!
Cassandra, your eyes are like tigers,
            with no word written in them
You also have I carried to nowhere
                        to an ill house and there is
                                                no end to the journey.
                                                The chess board too lucid
the squares are too even . . . theatre of war . . .
“theatre” is good. There are those who did not want
            it to come to an end

and those negroes by the clothes-line

Their green does not swear at the landscape
2 months’ life in 4 colours
                        three times with tears:

to close the temple of Janus bifronte
                        the two-faced bastard
“and the economic war has begun”
                        Napoleon wath a goodth man, it took uth
                        20 yearth to crwuth him
it will not take uth 20 years to crwuth Mussolini”

                        Firms failed as far off as Avignon . . .
. . . my red leather note-book
                                                            peace of the Medici

                                    lyrics also
                        that men sing to this day
            “to the abandoned earth”

“to the” not “of the”
            the old hand as stylist still holding its cunning
and the water flowing away from that side of the lake
is silent as never

                                    under the arches

                        to dream the Republic.

                                    the four bishops in metal
lapped by the flame, amid ruin, the faith —
                        reliquaries seen on the altar.
“Someone to take the blame if we slip up on it”

                        sleek head in the midst of it,

“if you will stay for the night”
“it is true there is only one room for the lot of us”
“money is nothing”
“no, there is nothing to pay for that bread”
                                                            “nor for the soup
“Nothing left here but women”
                                    “Have lugged it this far, will keep it” (the knapsack)
                                    No, they will do nothing to you.
“Who says he is an American”
                                    a still form on the camp bed

“Good God,” “The Man!” “Daddy has come!”
                        Slow lift of long banners
                                                Fleeing to Rome from Sabine lands
and built the city where of noble fame
            the Latin people taken has their name
bringing his gods into Latium
                                                saving the bricabrac
“Ere he his goddess brought into Latium
                        “each one in the name”
in whom are the voices, keeping hand on the reins

            word not blacked out

The touch of sadism in the back of his neck
tinting justice, “Steele that is one awful name.”
            sd/ the cheerful reflective nigger
Blood and Slaughter to help him
                                    dialog repartee at the drain hole
Straight as the bar of a ducking stool “got his pride”
get to the states you can buy it
                                                            Don’t try that here
the bearded owl making catcalls
                                                            justice of Athena sustain me
“definition can not be shut down under a box lid”
but if the gelatine be effaced whereon is the record?
“wherein is no responsible person
                        having a front name, a hind name and an address”
“not a right but a duty”
                                    those words still stand uncancelled,
            “Present!”
                                    and shit for the monopolists
                                                            the bastardly lot of ’em
Put down the slave trade, made the desert to yield
and menaced the loan swine
                                    Apollo, double Apollo
                                    “not the priest but the victim”

knew something was phoney, when he
            sd/ : the money is there.
Knowledge lost

            (“law rules the sea”)

that the state have vantage from private misfortune
No! Or the story of property

nothing worse than fixed charge
                                                several years’ average

Be welcome, O cricket my cricket, but you must not
                                                                                    sing after taps.
Guard’s cap 15th century
                                    in the village it is sometimes said
                                                that a helmet is useless
                                                            nothing at all
                                    It only gives courage
                                                to those who have none at all
So Salzburg reopens
                        Here sings Wolfgang the cricket
                                    Softly the bass
one might do worse than open a pub
                                                so one thinks of

                                                                                    in pink
crystal helmets the mountebanks

                                                with the cakeshops

in pink crystal helmets the mountebanks
messed up Monsieur Mozart’s house
                        but left the door of the new concert hall
So he said, looking at the signed columns

“how the hell can we get any architecture
                                                when we order our columns by the gross?”
red marble with a stone loop cast round it, four shafts,

                                    “And makes the air tremble with light”
                                    thus writ, and conserved (or was)

So we sat there by the arena,
                                                outside,

                                                                        the decadent (Eliot)
the lace cuff fallen over his knuckles
            considering Rochefoucauld
but the program  (Café Dante)  a literary program 1920 or
                                                thereabouts was neither published nor followed

                                                years before that, : “Can’t move ’em with
a cold thing like economics                        I am pledged not to
come here (London) to Parliament”
                        The grove needs an altar
as under the rain altars
asking how to discover delusions (confusions)
                        “Chose

                                                            and the crooks disappeared.”
                        “Chose

                                                            and the crooks toddled off.”
                        2 hours of living, knew when they left
that there wd/ be one hell of a fight

                                                            against world entanglement
Two with him in the whole house against the constriction of
                                                                                                Bacchus
moved to repeal that god-damned amendment
                        Number XVIII

Geneva the usurers’ dunghill
                        Frogs, brits, with a few dutch pimps
as top dressing to preface extortions
                        and the usual filthiness
for detail

                                    , that is, for a few of the more obvious details,
the root stench being usura and CHANGING OF CURRENCY
and Churchill’s return to Midas broadcast by his liary.
                        “No longer necessary,” taxes are no longer necessary
in the old way if it (money) be based on work done
                        inside a system and measured and gauged to human
                                                                                    requirements
inside the nation of system                        process

and cancelled in proportion
                                                to what is used and worn out

                                    Sd/ one we/ have to think about that
but was hang’d dead by the heels before his thought as proposed
            came into action efficiently
“For a pig,”

                                                “for a woman.” For the infamies of
                                    usura,

                                                cause for wars,            “mits”
            sang Mr. Wilson, Thomas not Woodrow,

(the honours twice with his boots on,
                                    that was Wellington)
and if theft be the main motive in government
                                    in a large way
there will certainly be minor purloinments
As long as the socialists use their accessories as red herring
to keep man’s mind off the creation of money
many men’s manners                        he saw and cities Odysseus
this shrewd character,

                                                            so Nausikaa
took down the washing or at least went to see that the
maids didn’t slack
                        or sat by the window

                                                knowing that nothing could happen
and looking ironicly at the traveler
                                    Cassandra your eyes are like tigers’
no light reaches through them
                                    eating lotus, or if not exactly the lotus, the asphodel
To be gentlewoman in a lost town in the mountains
                        on a balcony with an iron railing
            with a servant behind her
                        as it might be in a play

and one goes by, not alone,
                                                There is no love without jealousy
Without secrets no love
                                    eyes of

                                                            the crazy woman

                        shade at the 3-way and that presage
                                                in the air
which means that nothing will happen that will
            be visible to the sargeants
Three women inside my mind
but as of conversation to follow,
boredom of that roman

                                                in her vision
that stone angle all of his scenery
                                                with the balustrade, an antipodes
and as for the solidity of the white oxen in all this
                        perhaps only Dr. Williams (Bill Carlos)
                                                will understand its importance,
                        its benediction. He wd/ have put in the cart.
The shadow of the tent’s peak treads on its corner peg
marking the hour. The moon split, no cloud nearer than Lucca.
In the spring and autumn
            In “The Spring and Autumn”
                                                there
                                                 are
                                                  no
                                            righteous
                                                wars

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