Collating bones: I would have liked to do. <br />Henry would have been hot at that. <br />I missed his profession. <br />As a little boy I always thought <br />'I'm an archeologist'; who <br />could be more respected peaceful serious than that? <br /> <br />Hell talkt my brain awake. <br />Bluffed to the ends of me pain <br />& I took up a pencil; <br />like this I'm longing with. One sign <br />would snow me back, back. <br />is there anyone in the audience who has lived in vain? <br /> <br />A Chinese tooth! African jaw! <br />Drool, says a nervous system, <br />for a joyous replacing. Heat burns off dew. <br />Between the Ices (Mindel-Würm) <br />in a world I ever saw <br />some of my drying people indexed: "Warm."<br /><br />John Berryman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dream-song-30-collating-bones-i-would-have-liked/
