Tzara
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'Least that's what it says in your profile, girl. Hope it's really the right day.
Dug this Ted poem up. It was for Jim Carroll, but think of it as a gift, anyways. Substitute yer own name where 'tis appropriate.
Dug this Ted poem up. It was for Jim Carroll, but think of it as a gift, anyways. Substitute yer own name where 'tis appropriate.
SOMETHING AMAZING JUST HAPPENED
for Jim Carroll on his birthday
by Ted Berrigan
A lovely body gracefully is nodding
Out of a blue Buffalo
................................Monday morning
........................................................curls
softly rising color the air
................................it's yellow
above the black plane
.......................beneath a red tensor
I've been dreaming. The telephone kept ringing & ringing
clear & direct, purposeful yet pleasant, still taking pleasure
in bringing the good news, a young man in horn-rims' voice
.............................................................is speaking
while I listen. Mr. Berrigan, he says, & without waiting for an answer goes on,
I'm happy to be able to inform you that your request for
........a Guggenheim Foundation Grant
Has been favorably received by the committee, & approved. When
........would you like to leave?
Uh, not just yet, I said, uh, what exactly did I say with regards to
........leaving, in my application...I'm a little hazy at the moment.
Yes. Your project, as outlined in your application for a grant for the purpose of giving Jim Carroll the best possible birthday present you could get him, through our Foundation, actually left the project, that is,
........how the monies
would be spent, up to us. You indicated, wisely, I think, that we know
........more about what kind of project we would approve than you did,
........so we should
make one up for you, since all you wanted was money, to buy Jim a birthday gift.
Aha! I said. So, what's up?
We have arranged for you and Jim to spend a year in London,
........................................................in a flat
........off of King's Row.
You will receive 250 pounds each a month expenses, all travel
........expenses paid, & a clothing allowance of 25 pounds each per month.
........During the year,
At your leisure, you might send us from time to time copies of your London
works. By year's end I'm sure you will each.....have enough new poems for two
new books,
which we would then publish in a deluxe boxed hardcover edition,
........for the rights to which we shall be prepared to pay a
........considerable sum, as is your due.
We feel that this inspired project will most surely result in.....the first
major boxed set of works since Tom Sawyer &
........Huckleberry Finn! Innocents Abroad
in reverse, so to speak! We know your poems, yours & Jim's, will
........tell it like it is, & that is what we are desperate to know! So, when
would you like to leave?
Immediately, I shouted! & Jim! I called, Jim! Happy Birthday!........Wake up!
Anyways, it's a bit late in the day, but hope it was swell for you. for Jim Carroll on his birthday
by Ted Berrigan
A lovely body gracefully is nodding
Out of a blue Buffalo
................................Monday morning
........................................................curls
softly rising color the air
................................it's yellow
above the black plane
.......................beneath a red tensor
I've been dreaming. The telephone kept ringing & ringing
clear & direct, purposeful yet pleasant, still taking pleasure
in bringing the good news, a young man in horn-rims' voice
.............................................................is speaking
while I listen. Mr. Berrigan, he says, & without waiting for an answer goes on,
I'm happy to be able to inform you that your request for
........a Guggenheim Foundation Grant
Has been favorably received by the committee, & approved. When
........would you like to leave?
Uh, not just yet, I said, uh, what exactly did I say with regards to
........leaving, in my application...I'm a little hazy at the moment.
Yes. Your project, as outlined in your application for a grant for the purpose of giving Jim Carroll the best possible birthday present you could get him, through our Foundation, actually left the project, that is,
........how the monies
would be spent, up to us. You indicated, wisely, I think, that we know
........more about what kind of project we would approve than you did,
........so we should
make one up for you, since all you wanted was money, to buy Jim a birthday gift.
Aha! I said. So, what's up?
We have arranged for you and Jim to spend a year in London,
........................................................in a flat
........off of King's Row.
You will receive 250 pounds each a month expenses, all travel
........expenses paid, & a clothing allowance of 25 pounds each per month.
........During the year,
At your leisure, you might send us from time to time copies of your London
works. By year's end I'm sure you will each.....have enough new poems for two
new books,
which we would then publish in a deluxe boxed hardcover edition,
........for the rights to which we shall be prepared to pay a
........considerable sum, as is your due.
We feel that this inspired project will most surely result in.....the first
major boxed set of works since Tom Sawyer &
........Huckleberry Finn! Innocents Abroad
in reverse, so to speak! We know your poems, yours & Jim's, will
........tell it like it is, & that is what we are desperate to know! So, when
would you like to leave?
Immediately, I shouted! & Jim! I called, Jim! Happy Birthday!........Wake up!
