I heard said 'Cats that walk by their wild lone' <br />but Henry had need of friends. They disappeared <br />Shall I follow my dream? <br />Clothes disappeared in a backward sliding, zones <br />shot into view, pocked, exact & weird: <br />who is what he seem? <br /> <br />I will tell you now a story about Speck: <br />after other cuts, he put the knife in her eye, <br />one of the eight: <br />he was troubled, missionary: and Whitman <br />of the tower murdered his wife & mother <br />before (mercy-killings) he set out. <br /> <br />Not every shot went in. But most went in: <br />in just over an hour <br />with the tumor thudding in his brain <br />he killed 13, hit 33: <br />his empty father said he taught him to respect guns <br />(not persons).<br /><br />John Berryman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dream-song-135-i-heard-said-cats-that-walk-by-th/
