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“I Wanna Be Your Lover,” live, Capitol Theatre (Passaic, N.J.), 1982

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lagniappe

reading table

Whatever we’re dealing with catches us
in mid-reconsideration. It’s beautiful,
my lord, just not made to be repeated,
that’s all.

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It was a moment, what can I say.

—John Ashbery (1927-), Breezeway (2015), fragments (“A Breakfast Radish,” “Domani, Dopodomani”)