Recalculating by Charles Bernstein

Author:Charles Bernstein [Bernstein, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226925288
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

[“THERE ONCE WAS A YOUNG WOMAN OF WHITECHAPEL”]

There once was a Young Woman of Whitechapel

Who forgot that Eve ate an apple

She went looking for heaven but found only a haven

So they buried that Young Woman of Whitechapel

TRANSEGMENTAL DRIFT

It’s the mind makes a muck of these Sylvan

Occlusions and mannered pronouncements.

“Abominable!” is the word, beastly—

Sound obtruding into the poem like a

Pork rind at a Bar Mitzvah. Just give the

Twist a break, or several. Nailed down to

24-hour fog duty. The un-

iforms are soiled and ill fitting. But jeans

Regularize all that. The stuff of themes:

Cut and paste, morose, interdenomi-

nation, laser-sharp lobotomy. The

Door the door closes. As when a conti-

nental divide becomes metaphor for

Swimming laps (summary judgment). Goad the

Goalie but leave me to fall to pieces

With my jet skies on. The waves roll, taking

No toll. How about you?

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