Are you an Ameri-can, or an Ameri-canto?

Variations on a theme by Pound

The workshop professor

Make it new,

but not too.

The editor

Make it new,

except for you,

and you, and you.

The lit critic

Make it new

(until around 1952.)

The first-book prize winner

Make it new

and ignore the review.

The non-WASP poet

"New?"

Well, maybe to you.

Pound, in exile, attempting to clarify

Make it new,

and if that fails, blame a Jew.