Salutation by Ezra Pound
I’m reading Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry, about his life as a bookman, and he told a story about a woman who had 400 letters from Ezra Pound. So I consulted The Voice That is Great Within Us and here we are…
Salutation
By Ezra Pound
O generation of the thoroughly smug
and thoroughly uncomfortable,
I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,
I have seen them with untidy families,
I have seen their smiles full of teeth
and heard ungainly laughter.
And I am happier than you are,
And they were happier than I am;
And the fish swim in the lake
and do not even own clothing.
