Pound's old house
is now a poster shop
with Kensington Playboy Agencies upstairs
Well, some of the poems were bold as posters
and he managed to conduct a menage a trois in Rapallo
The house has no blue plaque
The campaign failed
his p o litical odour in the civic nostrils
being very bad
The house itself had a smell
the poet complained about
being a man with a vocation for complaints
He remade literature from this place
before he fell for Mussolini
Reading the letters you realize
he wanted to make the poems run on time
but he became the mad despatcher
and whole shipments went off the rails
Across the street the church
still has the bells Pound hated
He wrote a letter of complaint so witty
the vicar posted it in the vestry
but didn't mute the bells
a portent for a prophet
As a compromise a blue plaque
could be placed in the belfry
to keep company with the bats
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