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Sunday, April 16, 2023

"BROKEN WORDS NEVER MEANT TO BE SPOKEN" (WENDELL BERRY, WILLIAM MERWIN Y BOB DYLAN)

 

"Broken lines, broken strings

 Broken threads, broken springs

 Broken idols, broken heads 

People sleeping in broken beds 

Ain't no use jiving Ain't no use joking 

Everything is broken 

Broken bottles, broken plates

 Broken switches, broken gates 

Broken dishes, broken parts 

Streets are filled with broken hearts 

Broken words never meant to be spoken 

Everything is broken

 Seem like every time you stop and turn around 

Something else just hit the ground 

Broken cutters, broken saws 

Broken buckles, broken laws 

Broken bodies, broken bones 

Broken voices on broken phones 

Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin' 

Everything is broken 

Every time you leave and go off someplace

 Things fall to pieces in my face

 Broken hands on broken ploughs 

Broken treaties, broken vows 

Broken pipes, broken tools 

People bending broken rules 

Hound dog howling, bullfrog croaking 

Everything is broken"

BD

TO THE WORDS


When it happens you are not there

O you beyond numbers
beyond recollection
passed on from breath to breath
given again
from day to day from age
to age
charged with knowledge
knowing nothing

indifferent elders
indispensable and sleepless

keepers of our names
before ever we came
to be called by them

you that were
formed to begin with
you that were cried out
you that were spoken
to begin with
to say what could not be said

ancient precious
and helpless ones

say it

 WB

                                              — September 17th, 2001

 

 

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