John Berryman
John Berryman
Dan Rosenberg
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
Dan Rosenberg
Dan Rosenberg
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
John Berryman
Big buttons can allude to gaudy minstrel attire – since as Berryman says in his Note: “The second Song is dedicated to the memory of Daddy Rice who sang and jumped ‘Jim Crow’ in Louisville in 1828 (London, 1836 and later).”
The jane is zoned! no nightspot here, no bar
there, no sweet freeway, and no premises
for business purposes,
no loiterers or needers. Henry are
baffled. Have ev'ybody head for Maine,
utility-man take a train?
Arrive a time when all coons lose dere grip,
but is he come? Le's do a hoedown, gal,
one blue, one shuffle,
if them is all you seem to réquire. Strip,
ol banger, skip us we, sugar; so hang on
one chaste evenin.
--Sir Bones, or Galahad: astonishin
yo legal & yo good. Is you feel well?
Honey dusk do sprawl.
--Hit's hard. Kinged or thinged, though, fling & wing.
Poll-cats are coming, hurrah, hurray.
I votes in my hole.