SEPTEMBER 28, 1973

Alan Asnen
Nov 7 · 3 min read
W H Auden poetryfoudation.org/ Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

“A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,
Loitered about that vacancy…” —
Auden

A night like this demands collage

filled with images colliding

I wonder if Cornell is even aware

I ran to Calvary upon hearing

and asked Father Pike to do it now

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Thanks to Meg

Alan Asnen

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Possessor of Paul Newman eyes. Author of many things straightforward and strange. Some of them appear here.

Resistance Poetry

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