america's greatest living poet

america's greatest living poet, originally uploaded by beast of all notions.

seriously, david berman is one of america's great poets if not thinkers/dressers. here's a stanza from a silver jews song he wrote called black and brown shoes:


When I go downtown
I always wear a corduroy suit
cause it's made of a hundred gutters
that the rain can run right through
but a lonely man can't make a move
if he can't even bring himself to choose
between a pair of black and a pair of brown shoes