RE: dream songs

the speaker of the poem is bored, but not boring.

i find him infinitely more interesting than a 'party
person'.

he has rendered one of the stations of depression.

kim

--- Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE
<daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil> wrote:
> Nothing is boring only people are. It's that, I'm
> here you can start the
> party now attitude of life walking the thin edge
> between total lack of self
> focus and self centeredness that makes a non boring
> person.
>
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Johnson
>
> one of my favorites by john berryman:
>
> Dream Song 14
> Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
> After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
> we ourselves flash and yearn,
> and moreover my mother told me as a boy
> (repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored
> means you have no
>
> Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no
> inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
> Peoples bore me,
> literature bores me, especially great literature,
> Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
> as bad as Achilles,
>
> who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
> And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
> and somehow a dog
> has taken itself & its tail considerably away
> into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
> behind: me, wag.
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Received on Thu Dec 12 14:06:36 2002