'Can a poem be written on a train? ' <br />'Well, how fast is it going and...' <br />'Scusi! Per favore... il poema, il treno, o me? ' <br />'...are you holding on with only one hand? ' <br />'No, no, you idiot... inside - <br /> while the train jostles the soul and the mind.' <br />'Again, how much have you written? <br /> Think you, that Time awaits your pen? <br /> I mean: how much have you written? ' <br />'Can the pen be jostled just so... so that <br /> I think of one yet write another? '<br /><br />william beaird<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-e-pound-pisa-to-rome-a-fast-sonnet-in-three-voices/
