A Birthday Cake and Music

For John Ashbery, in thanks We are long-lived, with bodiesthat tend to outlast the mind.But not you, Tootsie Roll.You had a holster of highlightersin a million shades, and you’d use themto mark arrangements of bluespruce in a cartoonishly repeating landscape.Fossil...

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