Deborah McKinlayFollow
Writer. Still learning not to combine low blood sugar with a high horse.
"And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go." -- Neal Cassady
"3,000 books line the walls of my house. They define me; they remind me I thought this, was interested in that; they reassure me. Occasionally I shed a few books, but to get rid of many of them would be like discarding part of my mind." Penelope Lively: https://unherd.com/2023/02/the-books-that-made-me-2/
This must be one of John Ashbery’s shortest poems, and I’m not sure why he felt the need to write any others — this one sort of says it all
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