Short Bergman Poems

Soul
to soul-
free of the 
control of the
mind.

Tribute to Igmar Bergman...

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marguerite bergman, small town Iowa girl
ran off with a Texan at age sixteen in 1916
ran back home after he beat her in 1917
divorced husbands numbers two and three by 1925
Became my father’s mother in 1928, now happily married.
A woman with the confidence of ten men....

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Theatre
auditory, expressive
producing, setting, critiquing
 Miller, Olivier, Azmi, Bergman
directing, acting, entertaining
visual, scripted
Cinema.







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Date: 22 / 10 / 2016...

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Bergman Numbers


... there are no uninterest—
ing positive whole numbers—
“because if there were, there would—
be a smallest one, and the—
property of being the—
smallest uninteresting
number would be…be? You see?”

Thanks to Prof. 
--- George Bergman
	  Emer. Prof. Math. 
        UC Berkeley
*Poetry&Mathematics—A square: the number of syllables in a line equals the number of lines....

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After Ingmar Bergman 

And now that it is dawn
And the sun will soon come over the mountain
My wife’s warmth keeps me warm 
My screams of fear is now a murmur
She dries spittle from my beard and speaks softly 
Soon she will get up and make coffee
I let the aroma envelope me 
The terror of the night and death subsides and
I will try to be kind and
Believe in a god that will lift me up to his heaven 
And let me live forever.
But who will publish my poetry collections?...

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