JOHN ASHBERY


Words unfrozen
in a lexicon's legacy
when a grim conned love
in a consummate hit list
took us over
with distracted patinas
in a shirtless hunger
from painful desolation
in a century's mangroves
opened up voided short circuits
of electrocuted observers
when our era is abandoned
for art's new found consciousness
exposed in a fast moving
expository of deconstruction
when seminars are held
for past future neo Platonic bans
that the chilling Republic
hands out forty year old diplomas
and new aged dioramas
sculptured in a cultured
Dionysian canvas.