20 April 2014

Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 ~ © 2008 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. ~ The Library of America -- 187

But, as panic results in calm, so accidents produce the blandness in which they may or may not decide to occur. Finally it is seen that they will have been in retreat a long time. On call, though absent. (365)