John Ashbery

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John Ashbery died at aged 90 on Sep 3, 2017.

I found him on September 4th.

(This in my series on/for/from/to/through dead poets.)

I found John today. John died yesterday. I read of John today. I vibrate now to his pinch. Somewhere by a poisoned river a dead man was born... Somewhere by a noisy airfield a pre-writ obit finds me - The news can still be news. My future in writing has been torn and reborn, today. By George, by John! A minced oath of mint stuff. John left in order to be found and I surround myself with his words - Speaking aloud a baleful cento of his wordings. A funerary recitation lofted into the bitter air as I read to myself and some phrases go burbledy out - smoke in the pines. What else, who else might next die that I will find it?

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