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John Ashbery (28 July 1927 / Rochester, New York)
Poems of John Ashbery
| 1. | Daffy Duck In Hollywood | 1/20/2003 |
| 2. | Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape | 1/20/2003 |
| 3. | For John Clare | 1/20/2003 |
| 4. | Glazunoviana | 3/11/2006 |
| 5. | Into the Dusk-Charged Air | 1/20/2003 |
| 6. | Just Walking Around | 3/11/2006 |
| 7. | My Philosophy of Life | 1/20/2003 |
| 8. | Poem at the New Year | 8/31/2008 |
| 9. | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror | 1/20/2003 |
| 10. | Syringa | 1/20/2003 |
My Philosophy of Life
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea--
call it a philosophy of life, if you will.Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?
That was the hardest part, I admit, but I had a
kind of dark foreknowledge of what it would be like.
Everything, from eating watermelon or going to the bathroom
