The Anxious Music

by John Ashbery

John Ashbery

Everybody and his boyfriend was there.
It doesn’t get much sweeter than this,
O churlish BFF. “Dink,” I said,
“This was something they kept appraising.”

No snow in just anyone’s car.
Though too much literature is a bad thing,
you have to live with that. You sing really good
(as if he’d ever be enough for his birthday)!





Last updated December 11, 2022