This Room Poem by John Ashbery

This Room



The room I entered was a dream of this room.
Surely all those feet on the sofa were mine.
The oval portrait
of a dog was me at an early age.
Something shimmers, something is hushed up.

We had macaroni for lunch every day
except Sunday, when a small quail was induced
to be served to us. Why do I tell you these things?
You are not even here.

Saturday, May 21, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: dog
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
joe boehn 08 March 2020

difficult to read the poem because of all the advertising that was going in around it.

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John Ashbery

John Ashbery

Rochester, New York
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