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Songs for Dream Songs

by driving off the spleen

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1.
There were strange gatherings. A vote would come that would be no vote. There would come a rope. Yes. There would come a rope. Men have their hats down. "Dancing in the Dark" will see him up, car-radio-wise. So many, some won't find a rut to park. It is in the occasions, that—not the fathomless heart— the thinky death consists; his chest is pinched. The enemy are sick, and so is us of. Often, to rising trysts, like this one, drove he out and gasps of love, after all, had got him ready. However things hurt, men hurt worse. He's stark to be jerked onward? Yes. In the headlights he got' keep him steady, leak not, look out over. This' hard work, boss, wait' for The Word.
2.
Something black somewhere in the vistas of his heart. Tulips from Tates teazed Henry in the mood to be a tulip and desire no more but water, but light, but air. Yet his nerves rattled blackly, unsubdued, & suffocation called, dream-whiskey'd pour sirening. Rosy there too fly my Phil & Ellen roses, pal. Flesh-coloured men & women come & punt under my windows. I rave or grunt against it, from a flowerless land. For timeless hours wind most, or not at all. I wind my clock before I shave. Soon it will fall dark. Soon you'll see stars you fevered after, child, man, & did nothing,— compass live to the pencil-torch! As still as his cadaver, Henry mars this surface of an earth or other, feet south eyes bleared west, waking to march.

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Ambient music for Dream Song 10 and Dream Song 92.

John Berryman wrote The Dream Songs (1969), a sequence of 385 poems which brought him the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award while otherwise trying to drive off the spleen.

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released December 1, 2023

Image of John Berryman by Gary Kelley
"Heavy Heart, Empty Heart"
Columbia Magazine
magazine.columbia.edu/article/heavy-heart-empty-heart

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driving off the spleen Houston, Texas

"It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation."
(Ishmael / Moby- Dick)

ambient, electronic, and experimental concoctions created with cabalistical contrivances and literary / political pretensions

an experimental music collaboration for Ross Irwin and Harry Leverette
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