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The pound of flesh which I demand of him
Is dearly bought as mine, and I will have it.
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a villa ...
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be--a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship
Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night
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The first year was like icing.
Then the cake started to show through.
"It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letter
From the tower, and to show I'm not mad:
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"End of tomorrow.
Don't try to start the car or look deeper
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
I don't have to pound on that thick skull of yours and make big speeches as to what this mission means to us. I think you know. If ...
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