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The chair-sized man refuses to divulge the secrets of the one he left on the shelf [by Mitch Sisskind]

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John Ashbery: 'Fear among the legs of a chair...'

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'Good morning, class. In John Ashbery's poem
'Entitled The Skaters how can we understand
His line 'fear among the legs of a chair?'
'Well under the chair there's a frightened cat.'
’Yes, that's exactly correct. Thank you, Lump.'
'So why doesn't he just come out and say it?
’It's like when he says the wonder of the day
'When the child discovers her first dead hand.
'He spent so long leading up to that and
'We're all supposed to go ooo ahh except
'He's just been beating around the bush.
'In another one he goes signed the dwarf
'But he didn't tell us there was a dwarf
'So the dwarf just suddenly materializes.'


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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

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