carson-plath

September 19, 2024

Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

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“People will go to any lengths rather than actually read the poem, such as read a thick book about it.”

John Ashbery

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