The jane is zoned! no nightspot here, no bar
there, no sweet freeway, and no premises
for business purposes,
no loiterers or needers. Henry are
baffled. Have ev'ybody head for Maine,
utility-man take a train?
Arrive a time when all coons lose dere grip,
but is he come? Le's do a hoedown, gal,
one blue, one shuffle,
if them is all you seem to réquire. Strip,
This line is flamboyantly phrased in the blackface dialect that Berryman uses throughout the Dream Songs. 
 His use of this register of language raises the question of its use. One way we might phrase it is as a primal register of language of the American unconscious: full of alienation, with an implication of a deep historical violence, both farcical and with moments of supreme beauty. 
 As Adrienne Rich writes: “For blackface is the supreme dialect and posture of this country, going straight to the roots of our madness.”
Dream Song 2 Big Buttons Cornets: the advance