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Poems by John Ashbery

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How to Continue

... very much the parties went on from house to house ...

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The Tennis Court Oath

... he chose this moment to ask her in detail about her family and the others  ...

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The Painter

... They tossed him, the portrait, from the tallest of the buildings ...

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This Room

... except Sunday, when a small quail was induced ...

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Late Echo

... Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things ...

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Leave the Hand In

...   I ask you only to choose between us, then shut down this election ...

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The Instruction Manual

... ld man dressed in brown and gray, asks us how long we have been in the city, and how we like it here ...

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Hotel Lautréamont

...  4. It was their choice, after all, that spurred us to feats of the imagination ...

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These Lacustrine Cities

... s face. But the past is already here, and you are nursing some private project ...

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And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name

... Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate  ...

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The Bungalows

... Whose installedness was the price of further revolutions, so you knew this combat was the last ...

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Pyrography

... The page of dusk turns like a creaking revolving stage in Warren, Ohio ...

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Like a Sentence

... while lumberjacks in headbands came down to see what all the fuss was about, ...

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Sleepers Awake

... ha Christie slept daintily, as a woman sleeps, which is why her novels are like tea sandwiches&mdash ...

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Last Month

... In his book there was a picture of treason only  ...