July 2, 2014


<i>July 2, 2014</i><br><br><br>


THE ART OF BEING RULED (1926)

by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

It seems the old Vorticist was on to something
all those years ago
when Bergson was still drunk on process philosophy
and the avant-garde had failed us so.

Even when Auden called him
“that lonely old Volcano of the Right”
the old Vorticist continued to explode
off the pages of BLAST.

Spit out on a yacht
and blind by 51
the old Vorticist
portraitist
was an Enemy of the Stars.

With those adversarial opium-den
eyes
and that straw-strewn middle part
how could you be anything

but a fascist.

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