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 a PaCt With ezra Pound 252 Calle Querini I make a pact with you, Ezra Pound here in the Dorsoduro after, yes, I admit it, peering in the mail slot of the house you lived in with Olga Rudge, and glimpsing (near the peeling plaster) a portrait of you still hanging by the fireplace. I have hated your anti-Semitism long enough. Nearby the graffiti screams along the Riva Fondamenta morte a Israele / libera Palestina. So your intolerance continues (can I tolerate it?) amid so much beauty; you lived on an alleyway of stone. I come to you as a mother and a Jew who has otherwise prized your lines. Two steps away in the canal a gondola with a green crocodile on its side. Children in red life vests are learning the Venetian art of rowing. Let me take it for a sign What thou lovest well remains, the rest let rest. ...

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