Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back
Read 'Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back' by 'John Berryman' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back by John Berryman
He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.
He thought they was old friends. He felt on the stair
where her papa found them bare
they became familiar. When the papers were lost
rich with pals' secrets, he thought he had the knack
of ruin. Their paths crossed
and once they crossed in jail; they crossed in bed;
and over an unsigned letter their eyes met,
and in an Asian city
directionless & lurchy at two & three,
or trembling to a telephone's fresh threat,
and when some wired his head
to reach a wrong opinion, 'Epileptic'.
But he noted now that: they were not old friends.
He did not know this one.
This one was a stranger, come to make amends
for all the imposters, and to make it stick.
Henry nodded, un-.
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