Yes, and last year I inserted the draft section below into my current
poem/Canto, also beside the point. The offer to publish papers is still
open and repeated after the poetry:

WITHOUT Usura

Without Usura no man hath a house in foreclosure

With walls of tar paper tacked over particle board

That vinyl might hide its face,

Without Usura

Hath no man a poster of Jessica Alba on his bathroom wall

Stratocasters and Les Pauls

Or Like a Virgin giveth its message,

A tiny gold halo orbiting her clit,

Without usura

Seeth no man John D. Rockefeller his heirs and his concubines

Nor is made to endure nor to live

Beyond subprime loans and toxic debt instruments

Made to sell and sell quickly

Without usura,

Thy bread is no longer made of bleached rags

Is thy bread not dry as the paper it’s printed on.

Monsanto knew that with no mountain wheat, no strong flour,

The Sandinistas would have to eat paper

From the World Bank, beg seed from Cargill.

With usura the line evaporates

With usura there is no clear demarcation

And no man can find buyer for his ‘dwelling.’

Without usura the stone cutter

Would still be cutting Davids;


The Luddite would not have been hanged from his loom

With usura

Rayon comes to market

Oil bringeth universal gain with usura

Usura is murrain, usura

Stabs the needle in the young girl’s arm

And stoppeth youth from knowing any fucking thing.

Drexel Burnham Lambert

Came by usura. Michael Milken by usura.

By usura David Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie;

Rockefeller Center and Carnegie Hall by usura,

The Mellon Foundation and the Gates Foundation by usura,

By usura Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, Stalin and Hitler.

By usura Joseph Kennedy and Prescott Bush;

And Lehman Bros, AIG, FANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC by usura

John McCain, Charlie Black and Phil Gramm by usura.

Without usura no Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz or Rumsfeld,

Nor was Barbara inseminated.

By usura Wall Street, American Express and Citicorp,

The Dow, The Federal Reserve and two World Wars.

By usura Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq;

9/11 by usura.

By usura the Savings and Loan scandal, the Tech Stock Bubble, the
Mortgage Crisis.

Miami, New York and Chicago by usura.

With usura futures are bundled like ghost wheat,

Grain that rots in the servers

In the digital silos of Dubai, London and Chicago.

Without usura the present is not splintered into futures.

Without usura hath no country a need of a standing army of three million

Nor billions of Simons watching the train wreck only

To be crushed on the weal to Calvary

Without usura nature need not put on its game theoretical face

To show mathematical proof by crushing

The world back to uninhabitable composure.

With usura Katrina, floods, drought, fire and pestilence.

The revelers and their Revelations.




>> From: Alphaville Books <[log in to unmask]>  
>> Subject: With usura hath no man a house of good stone & the Home Mortgage 
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>> Usury age old and age thick/
>> Mr. Paulson, tear down this Wall Street
>>
>> Pound is one of the few poets in recorded history whose poetry has any 
>> bearing on the current ‘crises’ precipitated by Wall Street greed and 
>> avarice. What would Pound think of the current ‘Bail Out’ of Wall Street 
>> or, in general the world of debt we now float on?
>>
>> What do the current debt crises have to tell us about ‘usury age old and 
>> age thick.’? I know you’ve thought about it.
>>
>> Pound is no longer here to instruct us on the negative consequences of 
>> the latest debt instruments, so it’s up to those who have studied his 
>> writings to take the opportunity and re-articulate his position in light 
>> of current events---to re-articulate both the nature of usury as Pound 
>> intended its expression but also the nature of evil.
>>
>> FlashPoint Magazine http://www.flashpointmag.com/ would like to extend 
>> the opportunity to the Pound community to submit pieces on Pound and the 
>> Current Debt Crises. C’mon and pitch in. How many times at parties were 
>> you forced to defend Pound from charges that his economics was ‘just 
>> wacky.’ But whose economics is wackier---Pound’s or the Street? Now really.
>>
>> Its a new version of the old Nazi bugaboo, where Pound who actually 
>> killed no one is pilloried by the very people that brought hundreds of 
>> Nazi murderers into the US after the war and made at least one head of 
>> NASA, who trilled "I aim for the stars and sometimes I hit London" and 
>> his Peenemunde pal, Dornberger.
>>
>> We plan a new issue of FP sometime next spring just about the time the 
>> next wave of white collar felonious behavior is due to be ‘uncovered’ by 
>> are ‘free and unfettered press.’
>>
>> Actually, the plan for this issue is to focus on Finnegans Wake and we 
>> already have a number of pieces committed. So if you’d like to submit a 
>> piece on Pound and the Wake, we can include it in that issue. If we get 
>> few pieces on Pound and the Street, we’ll addend them to the Wake issue.
>>
>> However, if the request for pieces on Pound and Wall Street results in a 
>> 'wealth' of submissions we will immediately do a more timely Special 
>> Issue focusing on the usurious s/henanigans/ of our wacky, Wall Street 
>> brethren.
>>
>> FP currently has over 800,000 thousand title page hits and literally 
>> tens of millions of page hits. These numbers may mean little to 
>> taxpayers facing a $1,000,000,000,000,000 bailout which the bankers and 
>> the Street will promptly turn around and steal, but you will be read at FP.
>>
>> If you’re interested contact me, Carlo Parcelli at 
>> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Pieces 
>> can be of any length and any energy level.
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