Dream Song 35: MLA
Read 'Dream Song 35: MLA' by 'John Berryman' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Hey, out there!-”assistant professors, full,
associates,-”instructors-”others-”any-”
I have a sing to shay.
We are assembled here in the capital
city for Dull-”and one professor's wife is Mary-”
at Christmastide, hey!
and all of you did theses or are doing
and the moral history of what we were up to
thrives in Sir Wilson's hands-”
who I don't see here-”only deals go screwing
some of you out, some up-”the chairmen too
are nervous, little friends-”
a chairman's not a chairman, son, forever,
and hurts with his appointments; ha, but circle-”
take my word for it-”
though maybe Frost is dying-”around Mary;
forget your footnotes on the old gentleman;
dance around Mary.
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