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“Album Leaf” by John Ashbery 🇺🇸 (28 Jul 1927 – 3 Sep 2017)
The other marigolds and the cloths
Are crimes invented for history.
What can we achieve, aspiring?
And what, aspiring, can we achieve?
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What can the rain that fell
All day on the grounds
And on the bingo tables?
Even though it is clearing,
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The statue turned to a sweeter light,
The nearest patrons are black.
Then there is a storm of receipts: night,
Sand the bowl did not let fall.
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The other marigolds are scattered like dust.
Sweet peas in dark gardens
Squirt false melancholy over history.
If a bug fell from so high, would it land?