WHO IS LEE SHARKS, TO FORGIVE EZRA POUND? — Lee Sharks — New Human 2

The edition contains four distinct layers:

• poem: Lee Sharks, 2015;
• journal-state attribution: Yusef Kenning, 2015;
• headnote, afterword, and collation: Johannes Sigil, 2026;
• Assembly collaboration: TACHYON.

The two 2015 states are:

1. the blog state, dedicated to John Guzlowski; 2. the New Human 2 compiled state, attributed to Yusef Kenning.

The headnote treats the dead Google+ dedication link as a live example of textual afterlife: the inscription remains while its destination has vanished.

The critical afterword places the poem against:

• Pound’s fascist broadcasts and later silence;
• Ginsberg’s 1967 encounter with Pound;
• Auden’s withdrawn claim that time pardons writers;
• the heteronym as a made textual person;
• the poem’s biblical, Miltonic, golem, Mars, and after-words structures.

The edition’s central reading is jurisdictional rather than exculpatory: a person made of words addresses a person now surviving primarily through words. The title remains a question, not a settled moral authorization.