Close To Greatness Comments

The price of fame, exploitation of name, when your alive people will often keep their distance, after your gone they will claim some connection. Like maggots.

my guess is that Pound knew neither the lady or the gentleman.... //.... Very sensible. When a celebrity is gone, concocting such tales has no meaning.

Very nice poem. Enjoyed thoroughly. Thanks for sharing.

okay, charlie... perhaps i'd care more if i thought more about pound. the two poems by him i remember and like for their humanity are ballad of the goodly fere and a pact both of which can be read here in ph. -gk

As is the poem, except for the humour.

a very good poem. tony

... It was a shameful waste of madhouse time .. Humour in it

A second-rate poem- - - -

or if he knew one or if he knew both it was a shameful waste of madhouse time. humorous and funny lines...... excellent writer

Not a Poundian scholar but a pounding scholar. To old fashioned me it reads like an anecdote.

Whom to believe and whom not to this dilemma is with everyone and this was truly explored by the poet.

Very funny and so true....good poem it just hits the nail on the head....

Very funny and so true....good poem it just hits the nail on the head....

Everybody wants a memory of the piece of the pie-even if it's false.

yea the funniest poet ever, thats mostly why i read him

LOL. This guy is just a riot.