Sincerely Ardent



Sincerely he was ardent, physically he was repellent,
pursuing conquests like Columbus,
without the aid of moral compass,
he circumnavigated them, until they were Magellaned.

Jason Epstein writes in Commentary, December 2005:

“If you were just prose, ” a woman named Elizabeth Waugh wrote to Edmund Wilson, “I’d be mad about you.” But he wasn’t just prose, and he certainly wasn’t poetry. He was instead a bald, pudgy little man with a drinking problem and a mean streak.

12/10/05

gershon hepner

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