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“The Wound Talks to You”: The Nightmares of John Berryman (thepointmag.com)
7 points by apollinaire on July 3, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Ah yes, Berryman. Here's my old favorite of his: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47534/dream-song-14

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,

we ourselves flash and yearn,

and moreover my mother told me as a boy

(repeatingly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored

means you have no

Inner Resources.’ I conclude now I have no

inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

Peoples bore me,

literature bores me, especially great literature,

Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes

as bad as achilles,

who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.

And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag

and somehow a dog

has taken itself & its tail considerably away

into mountains or sea or sky, leaving

behind: me, wag.


I hadn't finished reading the first half-sentence when the screen goes black and a message pops up "You've read 1 of your 3 free articles..."

YOU are the wound, pointmag ... and I won't be subscribing.




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