Thursday, November 18, 2021

Bill Berkson

 


Berkson O'Hara Koch Ashbery


Monogram

For Bernadette Mayer 

Just one more vintage movie, 
Batwings tonight at the Bal Masqué —  
Another creature stuffed 
By distinguished pedigree. 

I get a lot of madcap ideas about sentience, 
How knowing has you put down in the book 
Forbidden speech recognition —  
Else why make such a face? 

And now it's luck no longer mouth that moves 
When fastidious rummage whispers 
To divulge a surplus 
A clue if not the key. 

Prospect my question laps up for good —  
I lean to it. Knowing you, 
First-person dwindle. 
Tweet-tweet. Prick. 



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