Ashbery & Buffalo

image courtesy the John Ashbery's 80th Birthday (De)Partee facebook page

I'll be in Buffalo, NY this Saturday, celebrating New York poet John Ashbery's 80th birthday (minus one week) by eating chicken wings, watching AAA baseball (a doubleheader!) and visiting Talking Leaves bookshop where I intend to buy an Ashbery book.

My Philosophy of Life

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea --
call it a philosophy of life, if you will ...

John Ashbery