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# "Complementary Noteboke" by Anselm Berrigan
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/complementary-noteboke-by-anselm-berrigan/
- Published: 2013-03-30T00:22:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:18:22.000Z
- Description: Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Anselm Berrigan for his sixth in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
- Author: Joe Pan
- Tags: Poetry, Anselm Berrigan, Hyperallergic Poetry, Joe Pan, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

*Our poetry editor,* [*Joe Pan*](http://joepan.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*, has selected a poem by Anselm Berrigan for his sixth in a* [*monthly series*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/hyperallergic-poetry/) *that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.*

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![Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "Peasant Dance" (1568) (via flickr.com/mbell1975)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/03/5191030386_91ca033fcf_z.jpg)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “Peasant Dance” (1568) (via flickr.com/mbell1975)

After breaking its spine we notice  
More clouds dressed up as brains  
Writhing past towers all adrip  
In grey snowlight. The skids  
Remind us both of that Bruegel  
We ought to know, but everyone  
From a distance is going natural  
Goth. Another Pernod for Mr.  
Archer, please. Neon doomsters  
Swear everything registered will  
Be good, if not especially just.  
Eventually the climate overpowers  
Inaugural sentiment, breaking  
All comers into lists of pursed O’s  
Melting down over candy, rejecting  
Unasked for snapshots of our  
Tackish purple-lit carousel rides  
By the Seine’s inviting trashbag  
green currents. The anti-concussion  
Rules can’t keep up with evolving  
Bodies hurtling themselves across  
Numbered chalk lines for us  
Without guaranteed contracts. No  
One truly broke fears that, exactly.