Since 1891

Since way back in eighteen-ninetyone,

the concept called frenemy

has awaited your coming to put it on,

like armor, against your foe's poetry.


Author's Notes/Comments: 

This was inspired by the tacit rivalry between William Carlos Williams and T. S Eliot.  Williams' resentment of Eliot's literary success, especially the influence of his poem, The Waste Land, seemed---at least to me---to be an obsession.

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