<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354582" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Close To Greatness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">at one stage in my life<br>I met a man who claimed to have<br>visited Pound at St. Elizabeths.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then I met a woman who not only<br>claimed to have visited<br>E.P.<br>but also to have made love<br>to him—she even showed<br>me<br>certain sections in the<br>Cantos<br>where Ezra was supposed to have<br>mentioned<br>her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so there was this man and<br>this woman<br>and the woman told me<br>that Pound had never<br>mentioned a visit from this<br>man<br>and the man claimed that the<br>lady had had nothing to do<br>with the<br>master<br>that she was a<br>charlatan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and since I wasn't a<br>Poundian scholar<br>I didn't know who to<br>believe<br>but one thing I do<br>know: when a man is<br>living<br>many claim relationships<br>that are hardly<br>so<br>and after he dies, well,<br>then it's everybody's<br>party.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my guess is that Pound<br>knew neither the lady or the<br>gentleman</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or if he knew<br>one<br>or if he knew<br>both</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it was a shameful waste of<br>madhouse<br>time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354582" data-title="Close To Greatness de Charles Bukowski" data-description="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..."></div> </div> </div>

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