Burdick has come through. It
wasn’t easy, or, apparently, that
difficult. He and his mother are
without, that is to say, within.
Bobby and Priscilla . . .
would you
finish his poem for him?
Here endeth the first lesson,
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Burdick has come through. It
wasn’t easy, or, apparently, that
difficult. He and his mother are
without, that is to say, within.
Bobby and Priscilla . . .
would you
finish his poem for him?
Here endeth the first lesson,
John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. His most recent book is Breezeway.
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