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William Fargason

@williamfargason.bsky.social

author of VELVET (Northwestern University Press, 2024) and LOVE SONG TO THE DEMON-POSSESSED PIGS OF GADARA (University of Iowa Press, 2020)

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · last yr.

"I drive over the bridge where it would be / so easy to drive right off." William Fargason (@williamfargason.bsky.social ) explores a life's melody shifting into harmony with those of Mitski's music. Check out "Ode to Mitski" and other poems published in Issue 29! buff.ly/0T16egr

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William Fargason @williamfargason.bsky.social · last yr.

This poem by Bon Iver in this week’s New Yorker is, well, very bad.

DAY ONE
Been a long while now coming up
Thought we were past it, thought we'd patched it up
Thought the title had passed hands
Thought we'd had enough
But the Sun's gonna go ahead and tag right up and we dont understand what we're standing on and we sure come in blind
With our timing
So I've culled what I can't tame I have taken all that I can take
It got bad enough
I thought that I would leave ...
I wish you could take that right off!
All that shit that rips you right up
Then you'd know that we been taught all this from Day One ... from Day One
Same old town and yer parsing through
Signs of live and die for you There's a million ways
You're falling thru
The cost of your mind And some may say that you lack the stuff
and you burn it down and clack your cuffs
But you may have to toughen up
While unlearning that lie

I'll go find the tap wire
I'll go put the pathfinder on waltz
Well, can I get a rewind?
Just this once, if you don't mind I don't know who I am without ya
'cause I feel a wild one now comin' on
I told you to be patient I swore that I was wrong So why can't we both just now get to understand from Day One ...
All this was dry land
Yes you have just always had your Band
But you get sad enough because it's all you seek ...
Hop on it'll all be gone!
You don't have to take so very long ... and u can't have it for a song And that's why I have rattled on from Day One ... from Day One
—Bon Iver, with Dijon and Flock of Dimes

Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's poem is "House Made of Guns" by William Fargason from Velvet Subscribe and you'll hear the poet from your inbox! www.versedaily.org/2025/housema...

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