Wakefulness: Poems by John Ashbery

Author:John Ashbery [Ashbery, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480459427
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

DEAR SIR OR MADAM

After only a week of taking your pills

I confess I am seized with a boundless energy:

My plate fills up even as I scarf vegetable fragments

from the lucent blue around us. My firmament,

as I see it, was never this impartial.

The body’s discomfiture, bodies of moonlit beggars,

sex in all its strangeness: Everything conspires

to hide the mess of inner living, raze

the skyscraper of inching desire.

Kill the grandchildren, leave a trail

of paper over the long interesting paths in the wood.

Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself

in turning into your love-soaked opposite. Plant

his parterre with antlers, burping

statue of when-was-the-last-time-you-saw Eros;

go get a job in the monument industry.

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