Po
or
trait d'une Femme - Ezra Pound
(he won't mind)
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea
-
London has swept about
you this score year
s
And
bright right ships left you this or that in
fee see:
Ideas, old gossip,
odd extra(excre)ments of all things,
Strange Trained spars of knowledge and
dimmed canned wares of
price vice.
Great Rate minds have sought you
- lacking someone else.
You have been second always
, on second thought. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the
usual causal thing:
One dull man, dulling and
lux
urious orious.
One average
d mind - with one thought less, each year.
Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
(H
)ours, where something might have floated up
:
And now you p
lay one.
Yes, you richly pay Richly paid -
You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
and takes strange
gain game away:
Trophies fished up; so
me a curious suggestion:
Fact that leads nowhere;
and a tale but a scale or two
.
Pregnant with mandrakes A pitcher plant, or
a break with something else
That might prove useful and yet never
approves proves,
That never fits a corner or shows
for use,
Or And finds its hour upon the loom of
days daze:
The
t varnished, gaudy, wonder
ful fold work;
Idols and
ambergris waxed and rare in delays,
These are
your some riches,
your great store; and yet
For all this
sea see-hoard of deciduous things,
Strange woods half
sodden logs, and new brighter stuff:
In the
slow sort float of differing light and
deep bleep,
No! There is nothing! In the whole and all,
Nothing that's quite
all right, your own
,
Yet this is you
th.