Louise Bogan


Several Voices Out of a Cloud

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come, perverts unnerved! 
Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit, to whom
     and wherever deserved.
 
Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue,
Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless

     And it isn't for you.  

John Ashbery

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