KNOWING

Knowing

at twelve midnight

we were late for a date

in Palo Alto

when I was quoting Ezra

the prophet of exile

in the Bible

and she devoting her thesis

to crazy Ezra Pound
at U.C.L.A.

with his libelous racism

being against the U.S. good guys

and I told her "get a life"

or get lost with Hitler himself

with his resounding racism

and she said to appreciate

poets for their literary bent

and not for their stance

on the government

then she sent me Pierian roses

and a book on Dorothy Shakespeare
Pound's wife

which was no apology
to my sentiment

for the souls who died

in the camps liberated

by the U.S. and Russian soldiers.