On Samuel Beckett
Beckett the Difficult, Beckett the Brash, Beckett the Prolific - New York Times
Lines for the Centenary of the Birth of Samuel Beckett
(1906-1989)
By PAUL MULDOON
NYTimes April 16, 2006
Only now do we see how each crossroads
was bound to throw up not only a cross
but a couple of gadabouts with goads,
a couple of gadabouts at a loss
as to why they were at the beck and call
of some old crock soaring above the culch
of a kitchen midden at evenfall,
of some old crock roaring across the gulch
as a hanged man roars out to a hanged man.
Now bucket nods to bucket of the span
of an ash yoke, or something of that ilk ...
Now one hanged man kicks at the end of his rope
in another little attack of hope.
Now a frog in one bucket thickens the milk.