The child stood in the shed. The child went mad,
later, & saned the wisemen. People gathered
as he conjoined the Jordan joint
and he spoke with them until he got smothered
amongst their passion for mysterious healing had.
They could not take his point:

-Repent, & love, he told them frightened throngs,
and it is so he did. Did some of them?
Which now comes hard to say.
The date’s in any event a matter of wrongs
later upon him, lest we would not know him,
medieval, on Christmas Day.

Pass me a cookie. O one absolutely did
lest we not know him. Fasten to your fire
the blessing of the living God.
It’s far to seek if it will do as good
whether in our womanly or in our manlihood
this great man sought his retire.

COMMENTS

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2 responses to “The Carpenter’s Son – John Berryman”

1. Aaron M. G. Zimmerman says:

   02/19/2009 at 11:52 am

   Is the last stanza about Judas?

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   • Judas says:

     04/30/2015 at 12:25 pm

     What do you think?

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