Issa's Sunday Service, #19: John Berryman Rock

For this week's Issa's Sunday Service, comes a song I heard for the first time yesterday, entitled "Stuck Between Stations." The band is The Hold Steady, sounding an awful lot like early Springsteen, though from the rest of the album it is obvious they've got a lot to offer. I'm down with any band that has lines like

"There are nights when I think Sal Paradise was right"

Or

"The devil and john berryman
-took a walk together,
-They ended up on washington
-talking to the river"

And the rest of the lyrics aren't too shabbing either. As a bonus, here's their Late Night performance of "Stuck Between Stations" -




Geek rock for all us geeks. There ya are.


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Here's a poem from Lilliput Review #27, November 1991. Have a great Labor Day.

Untitled Wednesday Poem

Can snake misbehave
in Jungle? Can cougar
error by mountain cedar?
My sad old knees ache in bed
in dream before dawn, but
know their job is to bring
my body to its resting place,
like full bloomed rose
in August, like cherry tree
its trunk absorbing moon's heart.

Pat Andrus

from his hole the snake
glances back...
corrupt world of desire

Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue

best,
Don