Occupation: Father
My
son
finds
occupation
in
almost
nothing,
in
everything:
my
soapy
penitential
toothpaste,
his
mother's
loosened
hair
orts,
containers,
useless
things;
watches
as
I
pee
as
at
Victoria
Falls,
once
pushed
his
head
between
my
knees
to
risk
some
sort
of
baptism.
Before
his
birth
I
thought
I
had
room
for
no
more
love:
now
when
he
(say)
hurts
himself
love,
consideration,
care
(copies
from
the
originals)
as
if
burst
inside
me.
Undoggedly
I
interest
myself
in
his
uninteresting
concerns,
grow
backward
to
him,
more
than
hoping
to
find
a
forward
interest
for
myself.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614). Ben Jonson died in Westminster on August 8, 1637. A tremendous crowd of mourners attended his burial at Westminster Abbey. He is regarded as one of the major dramatists and poets of the seventeenth century.