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Poems by John Ashbery

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Daffy Duck In Hollywood

... And so we too Came where the others came: nights of physical endurance, ...

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Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape

... She remembered spinachAnd was going to ask Wimpy if he had bought any spinach ...

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For John Clare

... hole history of probabilities is coming to life, starting in the upper left-hand corner, like a sail ...

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Glazunoviana

... In the flickering evening the martins grow denser ...

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Into the Dusk-Charged Air

... The Yukon Was choked with ice, but the Susquehanna still pushed ...

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Just Walking Around

... Counterproductive, as you realize once againThat the longest way is the most efficient way, ...

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My Philosophy of Life

... William James wrote in some book of his you never read--it was fine, it had the ...

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

... The surface Of the mirror being convex, the distance increases ...

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Syringa

... Its subject Matters too much, and not enough, standing there helplessly ...

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... by an Earthquake

... o constructs a concealed trap, and a person near to him, Gwen, falls into the trap and cannot escape ...

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If You Said You Would Come With Me

... away to the balustrade to admire the view of orchards and vineyards, approaching their autumn glory ...

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Crossroads in the Past

... We’ve got to change all the furniture, fumigate the house, ...

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Street Musicians

... Our trash, sperm and excrement everywhere, smeared  ...

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Uptick

... half turning around, slightly apprehensive,  ...

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El Dorado

...   Ten shades of pleasing himself brings us to tomorrow  ...