that's sweet. Bill would've liked it I think.
I wrote a poem 'to wcw' last year called "conservative gripe", maybe
it'd be relevant to show here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dfr8jjpv_39ckx5cq&hl=en
KS
On 06/09/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dream Song 324
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> An Elegy for W. C. W., the lovely man
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> Henry in Ireland to Bill underground:
> Rest well, who worked so hard, who made a good sound
> constantly, for so many years:
> your high-jinks delighted the continents & our ears:
> you had so many girls your life was a triumph
> and you loved your one wife.
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> At dawn you rose & wrote--the books poured forth--
> you delivered infinite babies, in one great birth--
> and your generosity
> to juniors made you deeply loved, deeply:
> if envy was a Henry trademark, he would envy you,
> especially the being through.
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> Too many journeys lie for him ahead,
> too many galleys & page-proofs to be read,
> he would like to lie down
> in your sweet silence, to whom was not denied
> the mysterious late excellence which is the crown
> of our trials & our last bride.
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> -- John Berryman
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