Giraffe Headquarters
Try this, but only for a while.
If it works, you can be said to have lost nothing,
which is what winning is. Who can imagine
what you brought to the courtroom? What beautiful expertise?
The tragic, unquestioning, amusing love of youth
scares everybody up. I pull on my pants
over my underpants. Isn't night over yet?
Not really. In five months my service expires.
Then we shall be together always.
John Ashbery
from Planisphere: New Poems (2009)
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