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Clues:
I was a quiz kid, took a trip by train to Chicago.
Went to prep school, Harvard. Did not play tennis.
Lived in what had been Norman Mailer's rooms (Dunster House).
Who am I?
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Well, if it's not John Ashbery, than it's a handsome young man who looks a lot like John Ashbery, which is what John Ashbery would probably say.
Posted by: Peter Fortunato | July 27, 2024 at 06:58 AM