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“Too Much Sleep is Bad” by
John Ashbery
🇺🇸
(
28 Jul 1927
–
3 Sep 2017
)
I don’t have a chronic cough.
Cats don’t drool over me.
You can’t listen to the change that’s being monitored.
You can only participate in your life
mutatis mutandis—
and they finally get it wrong.