GOODS AND SERVICES by Bill Berkson.
A fine, classic, and classy set of 9 poems. Clear, keen-eyed, subversive hilarity, “A panoply of perfect / luster bouncing” in sharp perceptive lines. Cover painting by Mitch Temple.
2008. 5.25” x 8”, saddle-stitched. $7.00 from Blue Press
Rendition
The song Willem de Kooning said
He wanted played at his funeral – Frank
Sinatra’s “Saturday Night Is the Loneliest
Night of the Week” – never happened.
What he got instead was selected
Arias from Verdi’s Aida – a scratchy rendition indeed,
As angelic choirs muttered softly among themselves
In unison: “Aida – fucking Aida.”
