John Ashbery




Product Placement

With all the de-emphasis I’d
expected the new bill
to be unbreakable. Like marble.
Instead: handheld
receivership. The party of
the second part clearly 
endorsed the setup. Water rained
on water lately. It looks like 
there’s so much pretension
and heaviness. Let him talk
to the border.

It doesn’t mean
that he would never do it.
You end up sweating,
photographing not too hard underwear.