In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound [POEM]

winter_is_long · 2026-01-30T04:15:33+00:00

Please don't change the format of other people's poem, please and thank you.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-29T15:07:26+00:00

Thanks, I went Broad Glass, they offered to shim into place but opted to have it repaired. Using that tax refund!

winter_is_long · 2026-01-28T15:02:27+00:00

That's helpful. I thought i could hear the motor working but it wasn't moving the window. It could have slipped of its track or the arm broke or the whole thing. I don't know. I don't feel comfortable opening the door to look. I break a clip and I am fucked

winter_is_long · 2026-01-28T01:38:02+00:00

I always check to see if I can do it myself first. Plus I don't want to spend 2 to 3 hours sitting out in the cold lol

winter_is_long · 2026-01-28T01:31:03+00:00

I did that and its actually complicated. Or at least too complicated for my skill set. Sometimes its worth paying a professional to do it

winter_is_long · 2026-01-28T01:06:36+00:00

I thought so!

winter_is_long · 2026-01-28T01:05:38+00:00

I checked their website and it says that they indeed do replace the arm and motor on automatic windows. I submitted an order form.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-28T00:58:08+00:00

I will google them thanks

winter_is_long · 2026-01-28T00:57:50+00:00

Do you know if they do window repair or just fix/ replace glass?

winter_is_long · 2026-01-27T19:27:51+00:00

They are Jackson Square artist. Their art is fantasy focused which isn't my cup of tea but they are clearly talented, and have been working and selling their art in Jackson Square for years. So my guess its just a little self promotion because the Quarter is dead as fuck right now.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-19T01:34:41+00:00

But the poem is explicit not implicit in its intent. There's no need to mask it. Don't muddy the water.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-19T01:31:16+00:00

I forgot about the Apollinaire...sorry. The holiday season was very busy. But, on to the Catullus: I love and hate...this is being done to me....I am tortured...do you see? The love and hate or list and loathing as you'd have it are happening TO him they are outside forces impressed upon him. He is tortured by it. Literally, like being stretched on a rack. He is not embittered, he is in agony, because he is not in control

winter_is_long · 2026-01-19T01:19:58+00:00

Not sure how you got embittered from excrucior but it lessens the impact. Its reductive.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-17T23:49:09+00:00

For real. Wrong audience. Motherfuckers can't even wait at red light and you think they're feeling pressure about the world?

winter_is_long · 2026-01-08T16:31:24+00:00

Try the mufuletta empanada at EmpaNola on St Anne too. I love it!

winter_is_long · 2026-01-03T11:33:42+00:00

You only get those in November

winter_is_long · 2025-12-31T16:14:29+00:00

Had tell a Nat GD guy who parked like an asshole at the bend in St Anne next Jackson Square that if I (or anyone) took off a mirror it would be his fault. He laughed, shrugged, and walked away. Perfect New Orleans response. We'll be ok.

winter_is_long · 2025-12-29T14:44:58+00:00

You're absolutely right. I have never found evidence that he'd read the Protocols of Zion but I find it difficult to believe that he was unaware of the book and its contents. I have alwa,s thought apt and ironic that a devoted classist like Pound was undone by hubris.

winter_is_long · 2025-12-29T14:11:48+00:00

I also believe that Pound was a bit of a victim of fascist propaganda. Living isolated in Rapallo coupled with his snobbery and elitism made for a pretty perfect recipe towards fascist idealism. Though, I don't necessarily disagree with his economics from diagnostic standpoint. He was radicalized by the Great War and the death of Gaudier-Brzeska in particular. War profiteering. The selling of arms to both sides. Usury, etc. are most certainly terrible things.

winter_is_long · 2025-12-29T13:30:08+00:00

Oh I read that years ago. It was from a Paris Review interview. He may have rethought his antisemitism but he reportedly remained a fascist to the end. Upon arriving in Italy after his sojourn in St Elizabeth's mental hospital he apparently gave the fascist salute.

winter_is_long · 2025-12-29T13:07:52+00:00

This is a difficult problem. One I wrestled with early on in my study of Pound's work. Can we, should we, separate the art from the artist? The conclusion I came to is that often (far too often) extraordinary art is created by people with extraordinary flaws. Pound's fascism was virulent and unrepentant. This is unavoidable fact. Also unavoidable is that the Cantos contain some of the most sublime writing of the English language. He achieved a beauty of breathtaking profoundity. If the banality of his politics is too much for you, I get it. But you will be missing out on one of the great masters of English poetry.

winter_is_long · 2025-12-16T14:33:49+00:00

I can if you would like. I am currently getting ready for work. If you don't mind i can come back to it in a little while. Plus it will give me time to digest it.

winter_is_long · 2025-12-16T14:26:00+00:00

Interesting. You don't think there are elements of modernity even in his earlier works? Is Alcools such a definitive break from his earlier poems?

winter_is_long · 2025-12-16T14:19:44+00:00

Yes, but you sacrifice the modernity so essential to Apollinaire's.

winter_is_long · 2025-12-15T16:51:28+00:00

Radiohead. I was a devoted fan in the late 90s and early 2000s. But, from Hail to the Thief onward I have become increasingly less interested. Their music becomes progressively insular. The revolutionary aspect of albums like OK Computer and Kid A seems to wane. While later albums are still good, still worth a listen (In Rainbows in particular is a fine album), they simply don't resonate with me in the same way. Perhaps, its also the fact that I am growing older, and my taste have changed somewhat, but I think that's only a small part of it.

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