Poetry
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
When it sank it thundered
Wonderful cries luggage
The dancing bustle of water
Exaggerate shoulder
Nothing for all your trouble but a bruised
Everything takes place
“Good old desk” he said
Deliver us from swivels
Lean outward, I can remember more
beyond this and that
Bands of distracted emotions snap
Your words will be guides
Is your beauty parlor
inquiring after you
You would die first, wouldn’t you
Take off your games of chance
leading with his chin
The earth opens and swallows you
And the lights go out all over
the Flatiron building
which brings me to the part
6/19/16
Note: This poem is composed of lines taken from Bill Berkson's Blue is the Hero (L Publications) and Ted Greenwald's Jumping the Line (Roof Books).
Contributor
Edmund BerriganEDMUND BERRIGAN is the author most recently of Can It (Letter Machine Editions) and We'll All Go Together (Fewer & Further Press).
