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A Worldly Country: New Poems
John Ashbery
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A Worldly Country: New Poems
John Ashbery
Thrill of a Romance
It's different when you have hiccups.
Everything is?so many glad hands competing
for your attention, a scarf, a puff of soot,
or just a blast of silence from a radio.
What is it? That's for you to learn
to your dismay when, at the end of a long queue
in the cafeteria, tray in hand, they tell you the gate closed down
after the Second World War. Syracuse was declared capital
of a nation in malaise, but the directorate
had other, hidden goals. To proclaim logic
a casualty of truth was one.
Everyone's solitude (and resulting promiscuity)
perfumed the byways of villages we had thought civilized.
I saw you waiting for a streetcar and pressed forward.
Alas, you were only a child in armor. Now when ribald toasts
sail round a table too fair laid out, why the consequences
are only dust, disease and old age. Pleasant memories
are just that. So I channel whatever
into my contingency, a vein of mercury
that keeps breaking out, higher up, more on time
every time. Dirndls spotted with obsolete flowers,
worn in the city again, promote open discussion.
96 pages
Media | Bøker Pocketbok (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg) |
Utgitt | 5. februar 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780061173844 |
Utgivere | HarperCollins |
Antall sider | 96 |
Mål | 152 × 229 × 225 mm · 141 g |
Språk | Engelsk |
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