Dream Song 36: The high ones die die. They die
The high ones die, die.
They die.
You look up and who's there?
—Easy, easy, Mr Bones.
I is on your side.
I smell your grief.
—I sent my grief away.
I cannot care
forever.
With them all align & again I died
and cried, and I have to live.
—Now there you exaggerate, Sah.
We hafta die.
That is our 'pointed task.
Love & die.
—Yes; that makes sense.
But what makes sense between, then? What if I
roiling & babbling & braining, brood on why and
just sat on the fence?
—I doubts you did or do.
De choice is lost.
—It's fool's gold.
But I go in for that.
The boy & the bear
looked at each other.
Man all is tossed
& lost with groin-wounds by the grand bulls, cat.
William Falukner's where?
(Frost being still around.
)
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John Berryman
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