“The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me” by Delmore Schwartz (Poetry Reading)
“The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me” by Delmore Schwartz (poetry reading)
What shall I say about this poor feller who has a serious case of body dysmorphia? He reminds me of my wife when she hasn’t shaved her legs for a week. The bloke thinks he’s a bear. It might have been worse. He could have been a girl and been called Ursula. Which reminds me of a little poem. “Mary had a little lamb, She also had a bear, I never liked her little lamb, But I always … ” er, no, really that’s altogether too childish. Gray’s Elegy has a couple of lines that make schoolkids giggle, “Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear”. Almost as funny as that hymn Grandma sings, “Gratefully, my cross-eyed bear”. The body is intrusive on our spiritual self: it grows hair in unaesthetic places, it doesn’t have the contours of a greek statue, it escapes from the containers into which we stuff it and, in short, it generally refuses to conform to our restraints, restrictions and requirements. Not only that, it doesn’t stay the same, inexorably it changes ever flowing downwards and outwards, getting saggier and crinklier with unwanted efflorescences, bumps where we wanted hollows and vice versa. We can’t do without it but fortunately it does last a lifetime – almost. The spiritual self seems less unreliable, less fallible, less lickerish, less ridiculous; no wonder some people hopefully believe that it persists after the body has disintegrated. a “factotum” is an employee to whom jobs can be delegated, a servant perhaps. “The scrimmage of …
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