Thursday, December 9, 2021

Ted Berrigan

 

Ted, 1967, mixed media on cavas. With Ted Berrigan. (Photo Courtesy of Poet's House)

painting: George Schneeman.


Sonnet #2

Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m

dear Berrigan. He died 
Back to books. I read 
It's 8:30 p.m. in New York and I've been running around 
             all day 
old come-all-ye's streel into the streets. Yes, it is now, 
How Much Longer Shall I Be Able To Inhabit the Divine 
and the day a bright gray turning green 
feminine marvelous and tough 
watching the sun come up over the Navy Yard 
to write scotch-tape body in a notebook 
had 17 and 1/2 milligrams 
Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m. 
****ed til 7 now she's late to work and I'm 
18 so why are my hands shaking I should know better

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