I'll stick with curmudgeons for just a moment.
Philip Larkin, Ezra Pound.
In one of his more lucid moments,
Pound said that literature should
make glad the heart of man.
And that's the best reason I've ever found to do any of this.
To write, teach, read.
So this next poem is called, "Glad the Heart of Man".
"Ezra Pound held unsound views on social credit
and Andy Pettitte.
Trade the warrior Pettitte for smelted ore.
Let it cool in a Roman spring.
Pound would kind of [? sin. ?]