The poet John Ashbery appears
in every single one of his poems
but the person John Ashbery
appears in none of them
not in any convincing way
in fact isn’t that the point
he means to be the world
so there’s a certain coldness
but with Schuyler and O’Hara
it’s all personal emergencies
as a passionate meditant
would put it and one feels
their immediate aloneness
and laughter like waking
with someone you love.
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