1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 15: You can biff me, you can bang me, get it you’ll never.at biff, v.
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 7: Now Henry is unmistakably a Big One. / Fu’nnee; he don’t fe’el so. / He just stuck around.at big one, n.
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 77: Seedy Henry rose up shy in de world / & shaved & swung his barbells, duded Henry up.at dude up (v.) under dude, n.1
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 60: Afters eight years, be less dan eight percent, / distinguish’ friend, of coloured wif de whites / in de School, in de Souf. / — Is coloured gobs, is coloured officers, / Mr Bones. Dat’s nuffin? — Uncle Tom, / sweep shut yo mouf.at gob, n.2
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 30: Collating bones: I would have liked to do. / Henry would have been hot at that.at hot, adj.
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 15: You can biff me, you can bang me, get it you’ll never. / I may be only a Polack broad but I don’t lay easy.at lay, v.1
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 27: My friends,—he has been known to mourn,—I’ll die; / live you, in the most wild, kindly, green / partly forgiving wood, / sort of forever.at sort of, phr.
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 13: Mr Bones, / as I look on the saffron sky, / you strikes me as ornery.at ornery, adj.
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 66: How feel a fellow then when he arrive / in fame but lost? but affable, top-shelf.at top-shelf, adj.
1964 J. Berryman 77 Dream Songs 55: I mentioned fiendish things, he waved them away / and sloshed out a martini.at slosh, v.2