March 2019 Poetry Feature: David Lehman
David Lehman
You can tell that the guy/ who wrote “I’ll Be Seeing You”/ (in all the old familiar places)/ was listening to the langsam last movement/ of Mahler’s third symphony/ at the time but in a less/ exalted though equally schmaltzy mood/ Just as you can be sure that Mahler had/ Nietzsche on the brain/ in the fourth movement/ when the alto asks the deep midnight/ to speak and it does it says the world’s pain
You can tell that the guy/ who wrote “I’ll Be Seeing You”/ (in all the old familiar places)/ was listening to the langsam last movement/ of Mahler’s third symphony/ at the time but in a less/ exalted though equally schmaltzy mood/ Just as you can be sure that Mahler had/ Nietzsche on the brain/ in the fourth movement/ when the alto asks the deep midnight/ to speak and it does it says the world’s pain
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