Dream Song 94: Ill lay he long upon this last return
Ill lay he long, upon this last return,
unvisited.
The doctors put everything in the hospital
into reluctant Henry
and the nurses took it out & put it back,
smiling like fiends, with their eternal 'we.
'
Henry did a slow burn,
collapsing his dialogue to their white ears
& shiny on the flanges.
Sanka he drank
until his memories blurred
& Valerie was coming, lower he sank
and lovely.
Teddy on his handlebars
perched, her.
One word he heard
insistent his broad shortcomings, then lay still.
That middle-sized wild man was ill.
A hospital is where it all has a use,
so is a makar.
.
So is substantial God,
tuning in from abroad.
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John Berryman
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