John Berryman - Dream Song 350 lyrics

All the girls, with their vivacious littles, visited him in a dream: he was interested in their tops & bottoms & even in their middles, for years Henry had been getting away with murder, the Sheriff mused. There'll have to be an order specifically to stop climbing trees, & other people's wives: we'll cut off his telephone, stroke one, and hasten his senility, stroke two: encourage his virtues, if he has one: ask him upstairs more frequently for tea, stroke four, put him on the wagon, d**h, no drinks: that ought to cure him. The progress of age helped him, to be not good but better: he restricted his pa**es to pa**es made by letters he drank less. Mlle Choinais noted a definite though small improvement in Henry as they pa**ed forth across the northern sea, a degree of gentleness.