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[from amaah] Walcott VS Naipaul

A hatchet job on Naipaul in verse... I love a good literary feud and, well, Naipaul is a fitting target. The poem's title is The Mongoose...."I have been bitten. I must avoid infection/Or else I'll be as dead as Naipaul's fiction."

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[from amaah] Hugh Selwyn Mauberly by Ezra Pound

walked eye-deep in hell / believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving / came home, home to a lie, / home<sep/>

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[from amaah] Poets' Corner - Walter de la Mare

Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

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[from amaah] The Sea Eats the Land at Home by Kofi Awoonor

It came one day at the dead of night, Destroying the cement walls, And carried away the fowls, The cooking-pots and the ladles, The sea eats the land at home;

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[from amaah] Observers are Worried

Only posterity is unkind to the man of conventional wisdom, and all posterity does is bury him in a blanket of neglect... Polemics of convenience / Shrink-wrapped profundity / Trailblazers of the trade winds

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