.. a song new like rain

   ..

   It gets more and more simplistic:

   Good and bad, evil and bad;

      what else do we know?

..

But there was that train of thought

That satisfied one nicely: how one was going to climb down

Out of here, hopefully

To arrive on a perfectly flat spit of sand

Level with the water.

  ..

  But for all you I 

  Have neglected, ignored,

  ..

  Not been that friend that is     approaching,

  I ask forgiveness, a song new     like rain.

  Please sing it to me.

John Ashbery

April Galleons

  Posture of Unease

  [fragments]

Collected Poems,

  1956-1987

op. cit.

Winchimes Cypress Point

Thorny

22 December 2012,

arriving late March

Qu'est-ce qu'un connoisseur?

     There is a film of dust

            on the lucid morning ..

     Flavors that keep us from

            caring too long.

John Ashbery

April Galleons

  Posture of Unease

  [fragment]

Collected Poems

  1956-1987

op. cit.

I feel this belongs
to Valéry Lorenzo.

In his own music, Britten

    The centenary of

    England's great-

    est composer af-

    ter Purcell will

    bring fine music

    forward to a new

    time, and infor-

    mation of sorrow.

Reform in postal servitude

    In the United States,

    there is talk of giv-

    ing our letter carri-

    ers Saturday off. But

    wholesome habits only

    find a new expression

    in the spirit of fine

    service.